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Historical Event on 5/11/1999

Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/11/1965The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country.
1/4/1889Judge M. Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India, was born.
2/16/1994Military Museum established at Ahmadnagar.
11/6/1997Supreme Court acquits former Union Minister for Power and Food Kalpanath Rai held under TADA for alleged harbouring of an accused in ""1992 Bombay J.J. Hospital shootout case'
3/28/1943S. Satyamurti, social reformer, politician and member of legislative council at Madras, died. He was born in Tirumayyam village in August 19, 1887.
3/28/1943Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.
7/4/1997Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996.
7/11/1994Delhi IG (prisons) Kiran Bedi wins Magsaysay Award for public service.
4/14/1995India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah.
7/29/1876Indian Science Congress Association was established in Bowbazar Street of Calcutta.