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Historical Event on 10/4/1999
Kerala High Court orders Election Commission to booth-wise counting. The EC is likely to move the Supreme Court against this order.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
| 1/1/1966 | Vimal Roy, film maker and producer, passed away. |
| 2/20/1947 | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India. |
| 2/24/1899 | Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born. |
| 9/29/1997 | IRS-1D, fourth Indian Remote Sensing satellite, successfully launched off by PSLV-CI, the country's first operational polar satellite launch vehicle, from Sriharikota. With this launch, India became a member of the exclusive club of nations capable of launching the heavier class of satellites. |
| 7/7/1917 | Ram Subhagsingh, great politician and former Rail Minister, was born. |
| 6/17/1933 | The civil disobedience campaign ended. |
| 2/18/2000 | Pandit Ravi Shankar is selected for this year's Subbarami Reddy Kalapeetham Foundation Award, a life-time achievement award, for his contribution to Indian music. |
| 9/21/1945 | British promise India independence. |
| 4/26/1895 | Guru Baksha Singh, modern Punjabi litterateur was born. |
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