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Historical Event on 12/19/1999
The President and the Prime Minister express shock over the bid to assassinate the Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/3/1997 | Four women ministers (Renuka Choudhry, Kamala Sinha, Ratnamala Savanur & Jayanti Natarajan) join I K Gujral cabinet. |
| 11/7/1933 | Gaandhiji commences Harijan-upliftment tour. |
| 6/29/1992 | Congress (I) nominates K. R. Narayanan for the Vice-Presidentship. |
| 7/25/1997 | Laloo Yadav resigns as Bihar Chief Minister after CBI-designated court issues an arrest warrant against him in fodder scam case. His wife, Rabri Devi, is sworn in as his successor. She becomes first woman Chief Minister of the State. |
| 11/3/1966 | Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000. |
| 7/13/1998 | India and Germany sign an agreement on promoting and protecting investment in Bonn. |
| 12/6/1907 | Revolutionaries looted Chingaripota station. |
| 7/1/1938 | Hariprasad Chaursia, famous flute player, was born. |
| 6/19/1981 | APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes. |
| 10/11/1962 | Chinese, Indian troops clash on border, claiming 50 lives. |
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