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Historical Event on 3/11/1999
Indian Davis Cup player and Asian Games gold medallist Gaurav Natekar announced in Mumbai his retirement from competitive tennis.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 7/10/1964 | Bangalore University was established in Karnataka. |
| 2/1/1971 | Ajaysingh Jadeja, cricketer (Indian opening batsman), was born in Jamnagar. |
| 12/25/1879 | Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born. |
| 8/17/1998 | The Government issues a notification banning the use of quinacrine, a controversial female contraceptive and sterilization agent. |
| 1/23/1909 | New direct 7,000-mile telegraphic link with India is hailed as a great achievement at London. |
| 9/8/1887 | Swami Sivananda, (1887-1963), religious leader, Hindu universalist renaissance guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide, was born in the quiet village of Pattamadai, District Tirunelveli. |
| 2/12/1995 | Maramon Centenary Convention, (the biggest Christian gathering in Asia) begins in Kerala. |
| 1/25/1932 | Rammanohar Vishnunarayan Tripathi, great social worker and political leader of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 5/23/1931 | Sharad Joshi, famous Hindi poet, playwright and journalist, was born. |
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