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Historical Event on 4/30/1999

Jessica Lal, model and TV personality, was murdered in a crowded south Delhi restaurant.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/20/1993Jaichandran Nair, Colonel Neelkantan, died.
1/5/1890Ganendra Mohan Tagore died.
2/23/1946Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns.
8/6/1962Peking agrees to talks with India to settle border disputes.
3/16/1997Saidian Shafi, correspondent, Ankhon Dekhi', TV news magazine, and his personal security officer killed by militants in Srinagar.
8/3/1886Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi.
11/11/1913Gandhi sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at South Africa.
6/22/1897The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter.
9/15/1999Palvai Purushottam, the sitting Sirpur MLA and TDP candidate, shot dead.
11/7/1995India opens second consulate in UK in Glasgow (first being at Birmingham).