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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 |
| 6/13/1905 | Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, cricketer (England 1929-31), was born. |
| 4/6/1955 | Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died. |
| 2/3/1995 | The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, notified after 7 months of Presidential assent, becomes enforceable. |
| 12/21/1999 | The Gujarat Government asks the Hindu Jagran March to go-ahead with the 'Shilanyas' for a Ram temple at Halmodi in Surat district. |
| 1/26/1993 | Sub Lt. Rubi Singh of the Navy becomes the first woman in India to lead an armed force contingent in the Republic Day parade at New Delhi; British PM John Major attends as the first ever British head of Government as Chief Guest. |
| 12/17/1999 | Pramod Mahajan, Parliamentary Affairs Minister, announces that Women's Bill will be introduced in the Lok Sabha. |
| 10/14/1989 | Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party. |
| 9/2/1992 | Delhi High Court indicts CBI in Bofors case; FIR and letters rogatory quashed. |
| 11/2/1994 | Three British hostages freed in Saharanpur, UP, after a fierce encounter. |
| 11/19/1838 | Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj. |
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