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Historical Event on 10/2/1999

Home Minister L. K. Advani said that the BJP was ready to provide letters of support.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/21/1974Inssatvahana, the first establishment to give submarine training, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam.
6/11/1991Over 106.6 million voters go to the second phase of national polls.
4/11/1856Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born.
8/6/2000Sundararajan Kidambi becomes the new International Master in the Beil Open chess championship at Biel.
2/22/1996Indian police charge 14 more politicians in corruption scandal that has already led to resignations from the Prime Minister Narasimha Rao's govt.
10/10/1899Shripad Amrit Dange, socialist and Trade Union Leader, was born.
3/6/1991Chandrasekhar resigns as PM.
3/22/1907Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament.
7/28/1999Shiv Sena president Bal Thackeray is banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years from December 11, 1995 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.
11/5/1920Indian Red Cross society was founded in India under Bengal Act VIII. St.John Ambulance Association is a wing of this societywhich directed Improvement of Health, Prevention of Diseases and Mitigation of Suffering activities.