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Historical Event on 11/28/1999

Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1977Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun.
12/16/1999The second phase of national AIDS programme is launched.
11/21/1947First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General.
6/5/1995A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins.
1/10/1996Centre sets up Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission.
12/10/1878Muhammad Ali Jauhar, great eminent journalist, editor, orator, fighter and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia, was born at Najibabad, UP.
6/23/1946Gandhiji advises Congress not to enter Interim Government, but only Constituent Assembly.
10/18/1901Mahatma Gandhi sails for India.
3/28/2000Delhi police arrest Shoaib Ilyasi, producer of the crime serial ''India's Most Wanted'' for the death of his wife Anju on January 10.
11/16/1877Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat