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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
5/26/1931One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.
8/9/1971A 20-year non-aggression treaty for peace, friendship and co-operation was signed between India and U.S.S.R.
10/6/1999INLD-BJP combine wins by big margin in Haryana.
7/2/2000At least 30 people had died after a boat collapsed in Kumla river near Pratapur in Madhubani district of Bihar.
11/9/1871Padmnath Gohain, litterateur of modern Assamia Barua, was born.
2/19/1992A 12-member Congress (I) TUJS coalition ministry led by S. R. Burman sworn in Tripura.
11/1/1966Haryana state was created from Punjab, and Chandigarh was declared as the Union Territory and capital of both Punjab and Haryana.
10/18/2000Supreme Court gives the nod for construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river.
8/18/1872Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar Gadgil, who provided new heights to North Indian classical music, was born at Kundanwadi at Kolhapur distrist in Maharashtra.
4/8/1925Kumar Gandharva (Shivputra Siddharamaiya Komkali), famous music director and singer, was born.