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Historical Event on 10/16/1999
A woman is elected as the Speaker of the Sikkim Assembly.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/1990 | Devi Lal, Dy. PM, dropped from Union Cabinet following wild charges he made against colleagues in an interview with the 'Illustrated Weekly'. |
| 2/3/1992 | Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first). |
| 12/22/1975 | Vishnupant Purshottam Bhagwat, editor, publisher and printer of monthly magzine ""Satyakatha"", d |
| 10/31/1876 | Cyclone hits Bengal centered near Bakarganj (now in Banlgadesh), about 200,000 die. |
| 2/15/2000 | K.R. Narayanan, President, presents Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 1998 to B.R. Chopra for his contribution to Indian cinema. |
| 4/10/1982 | Mahatma Gandhi Road Bridge at Patna started by Indira Gandhi. |
| 1/10/1996 | Centre sets up Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission. |
| 3/5/1990 | Government announces an interim relief of Rs. 360 crore to 5 lakh victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. |
| 3/5/1990 | Vasco De Gama departed with his fleet from Lisbon Harbour for a trip to India . |
| 6/10/1832 | Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India), was born. |
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