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Historical Event on 12/16/1999
India agrees to Financial System Stability Assessment (FSSA) by the IMF.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/17/1756 | Nawab Sira-ud-Daulah attacked on Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21. |
| 6/23/1997 | Acharya Tulsi, the founder of Terapanthi sector in Jainism, died. (20-10-98). |
| 6/9/1964 | Lal Bahadur Shastri became the second Prime Minister of India when the country was shocked of Jawaharlal Nehru's death and Indo-China war. Shastri gave the quotation ""Jai Jawan Jai Kisan"" which motivated the war-affected Indians to boost their morale. He remained in this office till he died on January 11, 1966 at Taskent. In his cabinet, Indira Gandhi served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting. |
| 5/6/1910 | Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, died suddenly of pneumonia at Buckingham Palace tonight. He ruled Britain for nine years. Power passed immediately to his son George, the Prince of Wales, who will rule as King George V. The 68-year-old monarch's sudden death threw his country into a state of shock. Edward had apparently caught a cold during a visit the past weekend to the wet grounds of his estate at Sandringham. |
| 9/3/1905 | Kamlapati Tripathi, leader of Indian National Congess, was born. |
| 9/3/1905 | Amir Timur left Delhi. He took the title 'Emperor of India' and recrossed the Indus on March 11. |
| 9/24/1931 | 19 people were killed by police during the anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir. |
| 8/1/1672 | The East India Company and the English law was for the first time intorduced in India. It was set up as directed by the Court of Judicature. |
| 5/6/1861 | Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, great Indian lawyer, political leader and social reformer, was born at Agra. |
| 10/21/1996 | Japan gets non-permanent seat in Security Council after a contest with India. |
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