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Historical Event on 7/1/1999

K. N. Singh (70), former Union Minister and senior Congress leader, died in Lucknow.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/1/1874East India Company was dissolved.
8/8/1955Dr. Homi J. Bhabha elected chairman of the international conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.
12/11/1906Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka.
12/23/1998Jayaprakash Narayan posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna, the country's biggest honour.
6/22/1993JPC draft report raps B. Shankaranand and censures Manmohan Singh.
11/15/2000India cancels cricket series with Pakistan in January next on account of Islamabad's ''hostile propaganda''.
9/4/1665Raja Jai Singh treaty of Purandar was signed between the Mughals and Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
6/13/1931Gandhi to live in a garret amongst the poor in London.
1/15/1997Pakistan's pilotless surveillance aircraft intrudes into Indian air space for the first time.
4/25/1993Indian Airlines plane hijacker shot dead by commandoes. All 141 persons rescued.