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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
2/15/1997Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi.
10/1/2000Ram Vilas Paswan, Communications Minister, launched the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited having total functional autonomy.
3/29/1989Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.
2/13/1713Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers.
5/13/1962Dr. Zakir Hussain became the Vice President (1962-67).
4/26/1858Kunwar Singh, revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, passed away. He fought his last battle near Jagdishpur, Bihar on April 23, 1858 and defeated the Britishers but was deeply wounded. He also organised the national rebels.
1/21/1997First group of bank documents relating to Bofors case handed over to Indian Government.
11/1/2000T. R. Prasad was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He holds this office till date.
4/18/1918Amboo alias Lalita Pawar was born in Indore. She will be always remembered as the a leading film actress and character artist. Her first film was 'Ganimi Kawa' (1928). Some of the other films of silent era are Shri Balaji, Bhimsen, Champion of the Sward, Chatur Sunderi, Goodbye Marriage, Flaming Soul, Kailash.
3/1/1930Coimbatarao Doraikannu Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's), was born in Madras.