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Historical Event on 7/7/1999

The Indian Army recaptures Jubar height in the Batalik sector.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/4/1924Gateway of India was inagurated by Lord Riding.
4/4/1889Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer, Hindi litterateur and President of All India, was born in Babai village, Madhya Pradesh.
1/9/1935Savita Jajodiya, famous Marathi writer, was born.
8/5/1994Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, a key accused in 1993's Bombay blast case, was arrested.
8/5/1994The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali.
5/6/1775Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested.
5/26/1906Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"".
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.
7/31/1996Joginder Singh became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/97).
2/12/1993Kapil Dev crosses 400 wickets and 5000 runs in test cricket.