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Historical Event on 10/6/1999

Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/30/1993Air Time Committee Chief P.S. Deodhar and its members resign in protest against the implementation of the metro channel of Doordarshan.
3/3/1997Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, arrives in New Delhi.
2/19/1855U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born.
8/22/1818Warren Hastings, first Governor General of India (1773-84), died at the age of 85.
7/5/1981Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory.
9/6/1947Indian government creates a new ministry of relief and rehabilitation of refugees.
11/9/1871Padmnath Gohain, litterateur of modern Assamia Barua, was born.
4/6/1990Bhalchandra Tryambak Randive, senior Marxist leader and founder President of WTU, died.
5/8/1998Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, gets the Gandhi award for 1998.
3/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party.