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Historical Event on 9/30/1999

India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/23/1994100 killed in a stampede of Govari Samaj people during a protest march towards Nagpur Assembly.
2/23/1998BJP leader Ranjit Yadav was shot dead in Sahibganj district.
2/13/1936Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai.
8/9/1893Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family.
7/16/1917Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, was born.
10/21/1916Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat.
2/18/1992Vasantrao Karnik, great journalist, passed away.
7/18/1908Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.
1/7/1987Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket. At 28, he was the youngest cricketer to accomplish this feat.
5/6/1861Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, great Indian lawyer, political leader and social reformer, was born at Agra.