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Historical Event on 12/16/1999
Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/25/1999 | Eighth SAF Games inaugurated in Kathmandu. |
| 10/15/1932 | First Indian commercial airliner service 'Tata Sons Ltd' started. (Tata Airlines) |
| 6/3/1915 | Sir' knighthood was granted to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore by the British Government. |
| 1/1/1900 | Sathya Sai Baba was born |
| 9/5/1888 | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India's first vice-president and second president, was born at Tiruttani near Madras. |
| 11/11/1913 | Gandhi sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at South Africa. |
| 4/29/1882 | Raja Ali Sayyed, leader of Muslim League, was born. |
| 9/26/1820 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal. |
| 8/25/1965 | Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89), was born in Delhi. |
| 8/25/1965 | Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born. |
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