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Historical Event on 12/4/1999

Uman J. Shah is sworn in West Bengal Governor.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/25/1877Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers.
6/4/1958The three-men Indian Mountaineering group successfully climbed the high Peak in the Garhwal Hills Range.
7/13/1929Jatindranath Das started fast strike.
9/9/2000Venus Williams wins the women's singles in the U.S. Open championship.
7/29/1891Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur and Hindi writer, passed away in Calcutta.
2/22/1947Nehru welcomes British independence offer, invites Muslims to join at New Delhi.
8/9/1963India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow.
1/20/1972Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become states of Indian union. Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram become Union Territories. Assam's North East Frontier Agency (Nepha) was renamed as Arunachal Pradesh territory.
11/1/1999H. K. Dua, senior Journalist and former editor of The Indian Express and The Hindustan Times, is appointed the Press Adviser to the Prime Minister.
4/15/1962S. S. Khera was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 18-11-1964.