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Historical Event on 7/7/1999
The Indian Army recaptures Jubar height in the Batalik sector.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/16/2000 | India wins the second leg of the pre-olympic hockey tournament at Perth. |
| 7/27/1998 | 7 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 7/31/1980 | Muhammad Rafi, famous playback singer, died at the age of 40. |
| 8/18/1923 | Jamshed Khudadaad Irani, cricket wicket-keeper for India during the 1947-48 Australia tour, was born in Karachi. |
| 7/12/1994 | India expels Pak diplomat; Indian attache tortured in Islamabad. |
| 5/18/1973 | A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'. |
| 3/22/1971 | Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, great social reformer, revolutionary and poet, passed away. |
| 6/20/1918 | K.K. Singh, politician and social worker, was born at Agra. |
| 1/10/1966 | Tashkent Conference between Pakistan and Indian leaders ended after signing of peace accord by Lal Bahadur Shastri and General Ayub Khan. |
| 5/30/1987 | Goa becomes the 25th state of India. |
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