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Historical Event on 6/6/1999

Paes-Bhupathi bagged their maiden Grand Slam doubles crown, defeating Goran Ivanisevic and Jeff Tarango in the final.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1997IWM Vijayalakshmi wins Asian Zonal Women's Chess tournament in Tehran.
4/9/1986First University in India devoted to hygiene established at Vijaywada.
6/26/1982First Boeing 707 of Air India `Gaurishankar' was crashed at Sahar Airport (Bombay).
4/1/1969India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore.
3/18/1992Shreyanprasad Jain, famous philanthropist and industrialist, passed away.
7/16/1991Railway budget hikes passenger fares by 15-20\% and freight up by 10\%.
8/5/1965M. V. Sridhar, cricketer (scored 366 for Hyderabad vs Andhra Pradesh, 1994), was born.
9/29/1971Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 people.
5/21/1994The Union Government imposes blanket ban on capitation fee for admission to private professional colleges.
9/8/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.