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Historical Event on 6/7/1999

Supreme Court, through an interim order, stayed the execution of the four accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case till July 19, 1999.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1902Tornodo hit Dhaka part of Bengal, claims 416 lives.
9/16/1954The Lok Sabha adopted a clause in the Special Marriage Bill providing for divorce by consent.
7/30/1991Sabi Fernandes, senior photographer of Indian Express Newspaper Group, died.
12/5/1998Jaswant Singh and Pramod Mahajan take over as the new Foreign Minister and Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Jagmohan takes over as Minister for Communications.
7/8/1996U.N. says India is leading in HIV infections.
2/4/1974Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.
7/9/1951India's first Five Year Plan prepared and published. There was the first amendment to the Constitution and the first general elections were held.
1/4/1994Rahul Dev Burman, famous music director better known as 'Pancham Da', died at the age of 56.
2/27/1956G. V. Mavlankar, first speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away.
3/16/1995World's best 7th wkt stand of 461 runs by Bhupinder Singh Jr. & P. Dharmani.