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Historical Event on 12/1/1999
Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, is named ""`Woman of the Millennium'' in a BBC pol
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/1/1999 | George Fernandes, Defence Minister, said the sacked Naval Chief, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, had been displaying ""disturbing tendencies"" for over a year and even threatened his successor, Admiral Sushil Kumar, with court martial. |
7/3/1897 | Hansa Mehta, educationist and social reformer, was born at Surat (Gujarat). |
10/26/1961 | Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October. |
12/19/1994 | Critical stores of IAF were de-inducted by AN-124 contracted by UN. Bulky stores were brought by ship Mogadishu. |
9/16/2000 | In an important pronouncement, the Rajasthan High Court declares Jains as a religious minority community and allows teaching institutions set up by them to enjoy minority status under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution. |
7/21/1999 | The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA. |
1/30/1903 | Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta. |
4/3/1987 | S.H. Vatsyayan passed away. |
8/30/1983 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle. |
4/22/1994 | Chabbildas Mehta sworn in as Gujarat CM. |
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