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Historical Event on 9/1/1999

The Congress(I) President, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, launches a broadside against the Vajpayee Government on handling of Kargil issue.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/19/1855U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born.
1/1/1950Inauguration of National Chemical Laboratory at Mumbai.
11/6/2000Buddhadev Bhattacharya assumes office as West Bengal Chief Minister.
6/1/1786Madras General Post Office started functioning.
3/16/1999The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.
6/5/1995Manmohan Singh re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam.
6/5/1995Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same.
6/25/1992BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.
5/13/1952Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru again becomes the Prime Minister of India and forms a new union ministry.
2/14/1959Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth.