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Historical Event on 1/1/1999

George Fernandes, Defence Minister, said the sacked Naval Chief, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, had been displaying ""disturbing tendencies"" for over a year and even threatened his successor, Admiral Sushil Kumar, with court martial.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/11/1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
2/14/1996Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn.
9/2/1911Chamaklal Dahyabhai Vyas, great poet, was born at Gujarat, Vyara.
10/9/1968Olympic Games open in Mexico City.
1/14/1969Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu.
6/15/1991About 50% of the 180.3 million electorate cast their votes in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections.
3/9/1858Bahadurshah Jafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was deported to Rangoon under the offence for rising of first Indian Mutiny in 1857.
3/25/1989India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation.
8/15/1979Tukoji Holkar, a leader of Peshwa kingdom, dies.
8/27/1987B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal.