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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 |
| 10/10/1844 | Badruddin Taibjee, lawyer and leader, was born. |
| 1/15/1988 | Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Chidambaram Stadium in Madras thus creating a world Test record. |
| 1/20/1897 | Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants. |
| 6/11/1991 | Over 106.6 million voters go to the second phase of national polls. |
| 11/20/1955 | Kripal Singh scores 100* on Test debut, India v New Zealand. |
| 7/31/1880 | Nawab Rai\Dhanpat Rai, 'Prem Chand', great litterateur, writer, editor, journalist and headmaster, was born at Lamahi village near Varanasi, UP. |
| 6/29/1991 | A 32-member Left Front cabinet led by Jyoti Basu sworn in in West Bengal. |
| 10/6/1990 | Justice Ranganath Mishra sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court. |
| 12/10/1979 | Mother Teresa wins Nobel Peace prize. |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
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