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Historical Event on 10/23/1999
V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/1/1997 | Bus with 70 people fell into a stream near Cuddappah. |
| 3/12/1941 | Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India. |
| 10/5/1997 | Leander-Mahesh win China Open ATP Tour doubles event. |
| 12/4/1997 | Lok Sabha was dissolved with immediate effect and new House was to be constituted by March 15 next. |
| 6/21/1988 | Sikh activist bombers kill 30 in Amritsar. |
| 4/1/1973 | India starts a drive to save tigers from extinction. |
| 5/4/1849 | Jyotirindranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur and poet, was born. |
| 8/11/1984 | A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud. |
| 9/29/1932 | Hamid Dalwai, Muslim social reformer, was born. |
| 6/27/1966 | D. S. Joshi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-12-1968. |
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