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Historical Event on 4/4/1999

India routed China 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round play-off in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/8/1968Madhuri Mani Iyyer, famous singer of Karnatak Gharana, passed away.
7/5/1970Indian ship capsized in Krishna River in eastern India claiming 150 lives.
2/3/1992Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).
4/24/1998India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah, beating Australia by six wickets in the final.
11/30/1989Congress (I) emerges largest party in Lok Sabha by winning 193 seats, Congress (I) rule in Karnataka and Veerendra Patil made the Chief Minister.
8/5/1978Five died and 70 were injured as upper-caste Hindus clashed with untouchables in Maharashtra.
11/24/1941Attack on Pearl Harbour.
1/22/1989Madhya Pradesh CM Arjun Singh resigns on Churhat lottery case grounds.
2/16/1980The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898.
3/22/1933M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.