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Historical Event on 3/16/1999

The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/16/1960International Telex Service between India and U.K. started.
9/29/1993National Human Rights Commission set up.
1/20/1897Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants.
8/18/1945Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose left Saigon and is believed to have died in a Japanese aeroplane crash at Taihoku Airport in Taiwan.
9/3/1767Colonel Smith was defeated in the battle of Changama that took place between the combined forces of Nizam and Hyder Ali and the British army. This was the first war of Mysore. The British concluded a humiliating peace with Hyder Ali of Mysore.
4/14/1905Earthquake at Kangra region in Himachal.
4/22/1993Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike.
7/9/1994Surendranath, Governor of Punjab, died.
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.
2/10/1859General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny.