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Historical Event on 10/13/1999

Atal Krishna Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1999Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation.
3/22/1961Jual Teria Dilga Oram was born in Kendudihi, Distt. Sundargarh (Orissa).
1/18/1994India hires the law firm McAuliffe, Kelly and Rafaelli for lobbying in Washington.
12/3/1971Third Pakistani aggression begins with air attacks on airports in the western sector; emergency declared.
1/22/1973Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away.
6/13/1992Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away.
9/7/1887Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj, editor and master, was born at Dhamrai in Dhaka now in Bangladesh.
7/6/1930Balmurlikrishna, famous singer, was born.
4/14/1991NF promises 5-10\% jobs to economically backward sections among the upper castes.
6/18/1996CBI arrests Sanjeeva Rao, relative of Narasimha Rao, and Prakash Yadav, son of former Union Minister, in the urea scam.