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Historical Event on 6/30/1999

The first ever direct bus service between India and Bangladesh gets delayed due to heavy rain.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/12/1899T. N. Swaminathan Pillai, master of Karnataka Classical Music, was born.
3/19/2000Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
5/5/1966Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.
8/7/1988N. T. Ramarao elected chairman and V.P. Singh the convenor of the National Front.
9/17/1998Rabri Devi, Chief Minister of Bihar, expands the Cabinet, inducting nine ministers, even as the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Soren) group formally withdraws support to her ministry.
10/3/1978Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta.
10/17/1999Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National Boxing championship which concluded in Shimla.
2/19/1992An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls.
3/15/1993Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs Zimbabwe. This was his second consecutive Test 200.