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Historical Event on 3/16/1999
The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/29/1977 | India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water. |
| 3/30/1994 | G-15 summit in New Delhi decides to set up a trade panel. |
| 10/23/1883 | Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, a pioneer in Indian Geology, was born at Surat in Gujarat. |
| 1/21/1997 | Delhi was the first city to use propane gas when 50 autorickshaws were started on trial basis. |
| 5/18/1872 | Bertrand Russell, great philosopher, mathematician, author and Chairmain of the Indian League, was born. |
| 2/2/1930 | Vasudev Govind Apte, editor and dictrionay creator, passed away. |
| 2/2/1977 | Jagjivan Ram, Cabinet member of 30 years, resigns to protest emergency rule causing minor split in Congress party. |
| 5/28/1998 | India takes retaliatory measures against Australia for its unilateral action. |
| 12/16/1999 | Bill on Cyber law is introduced in the Lok Sabha. |
| 10/1/1854 | Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26. |
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