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Historical Event on 9/7/1999
India rejects Pakistan demand for a East Timor type of referendum in Kashmir.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/6/1961 | Central Institute of Fisheries Education, a deemed university, was established in Mumbai to impart post-graduate education and training, mainly to the in-service fisheries personnel of the country to provide trained manpower for the fisheries developmental activities. |
| 10/1/1990 | Justice Ranganath Mishra appointed Chief Justice of Supreme Court. |
| 5/1/1995 | SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent. |
| 7/8/1985 | Sri Lanka Peace talks open in Thimphu. |
| 1/17/1992 | Shankar Ramchandra (Mamrao Date), veteran journalist, passed away. |
| 3/27/1996 | President and Governors of respective states issue notifications for elections to the 11th Lok Sabha and 6 State Assemblies. |
| 6/25/1998 | Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities. |
| 5/31/1973 | Mohan Kumaramangalam, Central Minister, died in an air crash near Delhi. |
| 10/1/1997 | Parliamentarian and All-India Forward Bloc general secretary, Chitta Basu died during his journey by Howrah-bound Danaput Express from Patna. He was 72. |
| 11/14/1959 | Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone. |
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