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Historical Event on 4/3/1999

India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/23/1996North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated.
8/30/1751Sir Robert Clive exhibited a heroic feat when the British troops captured Arcot form Chanda Saheb.
12/1/1998P. Subramaniam Poti (75), former Chief Justice of Kerala and Gujarat High Court, dies of a heart attack.
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
4/13/1699Khalsa Panth established.
10/21/1858Ramabai Dongre Medhavi, great social reformer, was born.
12/31/1943Ben Kingsley Scarborough, English actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice), was born.
10/15/1987Times Eye Research Foundation was established in Amritsar, India.
12/20/1999Win Chadha ready to come to India to face trial in the Bofors case.
6/12/1996India's new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda wins vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha and will rule as head of the United Front Coalition.