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Historical Event on 10/22/1999
The Prime Minister warns of more 'hard decisions'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/16/1997 | Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam. |
| 3/7/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party. |
| 3/31/1993 | J.N. Dixit, Foreign Secretary, visits Myanmar and signs agreements on trade, control of drug trafficking and separatist movements along the borders. |
| 5/13/1996 | Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party. |
| 11/2/1999 | The Delhi HC dismisses a plea against Sonia Gandhi seeking deletion of her name from the register of Indian citizenship. |
| 12/10/1952 | World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India. |
| 11/6/1993 | First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly. |
| 10/6/1999 | Suraj Bhan sworn in Governor of Bihar. |
| 8/1/1932 | Meena Kumari, film actress, was born. |
| 5/18/1973 | A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'. |
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