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Historical Event on 12/1/1999

Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, is named ""`Woman of the Millennium'' in a BBC pol

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/12/1995India refused to sign NPT in its present discriminatory form.
5/12/1995Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.
11/29/1948Assembly bans discrimination against untouchables.
2/10/1921Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated Kashi Vidya Peeth.
12/15/1965Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river.
2/25/1844Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, was born.
1/30/1997Fifth Pay Commission submits proposals; minimum salary Rs. 2440 pm and maximum 26,000. Cabinet Secretary 30,000; six-day week; retirement at 60, etc. proposed.
1/18/1930Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram.
2/21/1952General Election ( 1st) of India ends.
11/29/1991Industrial and bank strike called by the left-oriented trade unions to oppose the new industrial and economic policies.