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Historical Event on 10/6/1999

Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes.

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.
5/15/1864Mahavirprasad Dvivedi, famous Hindi litterateur, poet, writer and editor, was born at Daulatpur village in UP.
1/4/1889Judge M. Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India, was born.
12/26/1904First cross-country motor car race inaugurated between Dehli and Bombay started its rally. It was organised by Motor Union of Western India.
1/12/1906Pandit Mahadeo Shastri Joshi, dictionary creator, was born.
9/12/1905Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London.
7/12/1998India will not reverse the nuclear programme, declared Mr. Vajpayee.
7/31/1964Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC retired from the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
2/25/1760Lord Clive left India. His successors as Governors of India were J. Holwell and H. Vansittart from July 1760 to 1765. He was re-posted to India on May 3, 1765.
11/26/1949Constitution of India was adopted