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Historical Event on 4/3/1999
India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/11/1989 | Pandit Narendra Sharma passed away. |
| 5/23/1998 | L. K. Advani, Home Minister, is to look after J&K affairs. |
| 9/19/1996 | India Development Forum pledges $7b. to India. |
| 9/12/1686 | Aurangzeb ended Adilshah's kingdom. The garrison lost heart and surrendered Sikandar who was sent to the state prison at Daulatabad. Bijapur was invested and the city opened its gates to the Mughals. Bijapur as an independent kingdom ceased to exist. |
| 7/27/1994 | Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses. |
| 3/3/1939 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention. |
| 8/23/1986 | B. G. Deshmukh was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27th March, 1989. |
| 10/12/1911 | Vijay Madhavji Merchant Thackersey, cricketer (all-time great Indian batsman), was born in Bombay. |
| 10/2/1930 | Jayasinghrao Mansingrao Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India 1952-59 with little impact), was born in Panchgani, Maharashtra. |
| 10/26/1891 | Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, famous Gandhian leader, was born. |
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