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Historical Event on 9/4/1999
Umesh Chandra, Assistant Inspector General of Police, shot dead by the PWG in Hyderabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/30/1995 | G. Umapati, filmmaker, died. |
| 10/19/1910 | Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
| 10/28/1981 | Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta. |
| 10/11/1999 | Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely. |
| 10/2/2000 | Mukesh Kumar, India hockey player, retires from international hockey. |
| 7/23/1904 | The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains. |
| 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'. |
| 3/8/1998 | Indian Airlines operates two international flights with all women crew. |
| 6/1/1970 | Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act was enforced. This act was passed in 1969. |
| 11/9/1999 | Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour. |
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