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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
9/4/1990An all-party meeting refuses to endorse the decision to implement Mandal Commission Report according to which 27\% jobs are reserved for backward communities.
8/30/1934Balkrishna Pandharinath Gupte ""Baloo"", cricketer (brother of Fergie, Indian leggie), was born in Bombay.
11/19/1994Lt. Gen. Shankar Roy Choudhury appointed Army Chief following the death of Gen. B.C. Joshi.
6/6/1935Harry Crews, great US writer and actor (Indian Runner), was born.
6/13/1909E. M. S. Namboodiripad was born in Palghat in Kerala.
3/17/2000V.C. Pande, Bihar Governor, accords sanction to the CBI to prosecute RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in a disproportionate assets case.
9/28/1827A few mountain battery trains flourished and kept the Indian component alive as part of the Royal artillery. Recently, it has been established that 8 Company Bombay Artillery survived axing and is now 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery. This day is now celebrated as the Raising Day of the Regiment of Artillery.
1/29/1781First Newspaper, J.A.Hickey's Bengal Gazette - January 29, 1781.
9/5/1998Trishul and Akash test fired from Chandipore.
11/16/1999Suraj Bhan, Bihar Governor, dismisses the Horticulture and Weights and Measurements Minister Samrat Chaudhary in the Rabri Devi cabinet for being 'underaged'.