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Historical Event on 4/3/1999
India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/7/1985 | Uday Merchant, cricketer (brother of Vijay, prolific scorer), passed away. |
| 7/22/1993 | R.K. Khandekar, PM's aide, denies Harshad Mehta's charges. |
| 12/10/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. |
| 11/10/1698 | East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time. |
| 5/15/1995 | PM Rao reaches New York for a week-long visit. |
| 11/16/1915 | Vishnu Ganesh Pingle, martyr, died. |
| 8/25/1996 | 194 pilgrims die of cold at the cave temples of Amarnath . |
| 5/27/1994 | Tarktirth Laxmanshastri Joshi, internationally famous omnicient, passed away. |
| 7/29/1983 | First Pilot-less Aeroplane of India was tested successfully by the Aeronautical Development Establishment near Kolar. |
| 1/10/1993 | 24th International Film Festival of India opens in New Delhi. |
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