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Historical Event on 7/16/1999

17 are killed and over 200 injured when the Delhi bound GT Express collides with derailed wagons of a goods train near Mathura.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/21/1956The Hindu Adoption Sub-Act 1956 was accepted.
9/6/1999Vyjayanthimala Bali, former Congress (I) MP, joins the BJP.
12/1/1942No. 8 Squadron was raised meanwhile, absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel.
2/14/199813 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.
2/12/1999The Centre dismisses the Rabri Devi Government in Bihar and imposes President's rule.
1/15/1973Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
1/1/1880Money order system was introduced.
9/28/1965India-Pakistan hostility erupts into a war lead by Pakistan.
12/23/1959Edward Fredrick Lindlewood Halifax ""Irwin Lord"", English viscount and Governor General of India (1925-1931), died at the age of 78.
2/11/1997NHRC recommends to Central Government measures to prevent government servants from employing children below 14 as domestic servants.