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Historical Event on 7/6/1999

The Indian High Commission staff member Yog Raj Vij, who was beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operatives, is released. India strongly condemns this assault.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1999The Rashtriya Janata Party (RJP) of Shankersinh Waghela merges with Congress(I).
12/14/1924Ranbir Raj Kapoor, famous film producer, director and actor, was born.
12/31/1995K.P.S. Gill, DGP of Punjab, retires from service.
12/27/1929Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag at the All India National Congress session held in Lahore. They resolved for ""Purna Swaraj"" (complete independence) on the instance of Gandhiji, the Viceroy of India that time was Lord Irwin.
6/21/1906Vyomeshchandra Banerjee, first president of All India Congress, passed away.
2/13/1856East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom.
12/6/1946Anglo-Indian talks end in failure after three days at London.
2/1/1797Lord Cornwallis was sworn in as Governor General of India for a second time in England. However, he did not proceed to India till 1805.
2/18/1911Captain Vasudev Belwalkar, who had also written the novels on history and war, was born.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก