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Historical Event on 12/14/1999

G.M.C. Balayogi, Lok Sabha speaker, presents a draft for over Rs. 32 lakhs to the Prime Minister for the Kargil Fund.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/25/1957Kashmir becomes Indian state.
6/13/1940Revolutionary leader Udham Singh was hanged for charges of assassinating Micheal Odair, who was the Governor General of Punjab at the time of Jalianwala Baug massacre.
12/29/1904K. V. Puttappa, famous Kannada poet and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born at Hirekodage.
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
3/8/1941Sir Jorge Abraham Gearson, philologist and archealogist, passed away.
1/10/1987Sikh terrorists murder Punjab prison chief in Chandigarh.
11/3/1991India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested.
12/25/1879Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born.
1/29/1996S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president.
1/6/1847Saint Tyagaraja, great musician, died.