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Historical Event on 3/22/1999
Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/16/1860 | First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa. |
| 7/1/1999 | K. N. Singh (70), former Union Minister and senior Congress leader, died in Lucknow. |
| 9/26/1979 | Charan Singh launches a new party called the Lok Dal. |
| 11/6/1993 | First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly. |
| 8/22/1915 | Shambhu Mishra, Bengali actor, director and playwright, was born. |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
| 10/26/1930 | Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay. |
| 7/16/1992 | Amar Varma, Hindi author, producer and director, died. |
| 1/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College. |
| 2/24/1997 | Charles Shobhaj, the notorious murder suspect, to be deported to France after 20 years in Tihar jail. |
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