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Historical Event on 12/16/1999

The second phase of national AIDS programme is launched.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1976Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.
2/3/1997Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes.
2/3/1997Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi.
1/7/1685Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born.
2/3/1929The ""Times of India Illustrated Weekly"" was renamed as ""The Illustrated Weekly of India"".
1/11/1993Communal violence in Bombay and Ahmedabad spreads; By-elections postponed.
3/20/1998Rajesh Kumar Singh, CPI(ML) leader, is shot at Pandeypur village in Patna.
11/3/1984Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated.
3/26/1997Andhra Pradesh Assembly passes a Bill to amend the Prohibition Act, ending the state's 2-year experiment with total prohibition.
9/21/1996Rao resigns Congress Party President post.