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Historical Event on 5/10/1999
Tamil Nadu Government withdraws the controversial Prevention of Terrorist Activities (POTA) Bill.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/2/1972 | ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India. |
| 7/12/1996 | Ram Vilas Paswan presents railway budget 96-97 with 10\% hike in freight and upper class journeys. |
| 11/8/1831 | Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton was born. |
| 9/17/1892 | Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, social reformer, revolutionary and poet, was born in Shillong. |
| 6/10/1987 | Jeevan, famous Hindi film actor, died. |
| 12/7/2000 | A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam. |
| 4/6/1773 | James Mill of Scotland, great philosopher and historian (British India), was born. |
| 3/5/1948 | C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June. |
| 2/21/1894 | Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, famous scientist, was born at Bhera, Punjab. |
| 1/1/1992 | Petrol and diesel price hiked in 11 states to make it uniform all over the country. |
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