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Historical Event on 10/23/1999

V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1993World AIDS day.
3/21/1979The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988).
9/5/199530 member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council sworn-in that was conceded by the Government of India in 1993.
7/29/1911Mohan Bagan became the first Indian football team to win the I.F.A. Shield.
11/2/1999BJP suffers jolt in Bihar as it fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats.
1/18/1971Barrister Nath Pai, freedom fighter and member of parliament, passed away at the age of 49.
6/5/1980Manipur University was established.
5/27/1999Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar and P.A. Sangma launch the Nationalist Congress Party.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.