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Historical Event on 6/5/1999

The Army releases documents seized from three Pakistani soldiers in the Batalik sector to substantiate its claim that Pakistan regulars are involved in the Kargil conflict.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/4/1942Japanese Navy destroyed 3 British battleship to sink in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War.
10/10/1906Narayan Rasipuram Krishnaswamy, great Indian writer, was born.
10/26/1961Heavy 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.
12/14/1953Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born.
11/14/1681East India Company declared Bengal as a seperate presidency.
4/3/1988Rajiv Gandhi seals the border between Punjab and Pakistan.
7/8/1958Lord Canning declared that since peace was established, it is better known as end of Indian Mutiny, 1857.
8/8/1911Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic.
11/9/1999BJP asks Kalyan Singh to step down, chooses Ram Prakash Gupta as his successor.
10/15/1995PM leaves for a 12-day tour of Egypt, NAM Summit at Cartagena in Columbia and 50th year United Nations celebrations at New York.