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Historical Event on 9/15/1999

Palvai Purushottam, the sitting Sirpur MLA and TDP candidate, shot dead.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1879Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born.
12/21/1956The Hindu Adoption Sub-Act 1956 was accepted.
6/26/1954Nehru, Chou En-lai pledge good-neighbor policy at New Delhi.
8/1/1922Ratilal Sankalchand Nayak, educationist and writer, was born at Kadi, Gujarat .
8/21/1995Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
3/29/1932Sundaram Gundibalirama, right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler, was born at Udipi in Karnataka.
9/29/2000A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt.
3/30/1919Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act.
4/11/1937Ramnath Krishnan, well known Indian Tennis player, was born.
9/26/1911Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal.