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Historical Event on 2/10/1999

P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
6/17/1991Congress and its allies secure absolute majority in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Haryana Assemblies.
10/6/1779Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born.
2/24/1899Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born.
4/18/1959Premier Chou En-lai insists Tibetan Dalai Lama was abducted to India.
7/6/1901Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician and leader, was born at Calcutta. He was the founder of the ""Bharatiya Jana Sangh"", of which BJP is the successor party. His father Sir Asutosh was widely known in Bengal.
4/2/1991Asom Gana Parishad splits.
9/12/1627Ibrahim Adilshah died.
2/18/1945Kal Yug' era passed away.
6/13/2000Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, announces a one-time settlement of outstanding loans below Rs. 10 crores in a move aimed at ridding the public sector banks of Rs. 51,000 crores of bad loans.