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Historical Event on 10/11/1999
Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1966 | Vimal Roy, film maker and producer, passed away. |
| 2/3/1905 | Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur. |
| 7/3/1927 | A. Neelameghan, librarian, was born at Ootacamund in Tamil Nadu. |
| 2/13/1936 | Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai. |
| 7/2/1999 | Sahara India, sponsor of the Sahara Cup annual cricket series between India and Pakistan in Canada, withdrew sponsorship in view of the Kargil conflict. |
| 3/4/1858 | J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands. |
| 4/27/1994 | Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21. |
| 8/7/1990 | Govt. of India accepts the Mandal Commission's recommendations and decides to reserve 27\% jobs for the backward classes. Violent protests rock parts of Northern India against Mandal Commission. |
| 6/24/1928 | Mrinal Keshav Gore, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 12/27/1926 | Imperial Airways announces the first scheduled air service to India from New Year in UK. |
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