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Historical Event on 9/30/1999
A B Vajpayee, Prime Minister, calls upon the people at an election campaign in Lucknow to give him a five-year term.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/28/1787 | Sir Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, was born. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 1/17/1925 | Abdul Hafeez Kardar, cricketer (Pakistan 1st Test captain, previously played for India), was born in Lahore. |
| 10/31/1975 | Sachin Dev Burman, famous music director, died. |
| 5/26/1931 | One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras. |
| 9/9/1999 | Mr. V. Sudarshan, Foreign Editor of The Pioneer till recently gets the Appan Menon Award. |
| 3/16/1912 | Gandhiji commends Gokhale's attempts for abolition of indenture system. |
| 3/16/1997 | Saidian Shafi, correspondent, Ankhon Dekhi', TV news magazine, and his personal security officer killed by militants in Srinagar. |
| 1/17/1601 | Akbar, after eight month's siege, entered Asirgarh one of the strongest forts in India. |
| 12/10/1936 | Duke of York succeeds King Edward as King George VI. |
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