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Historical Event on 3/31/1999

The PIO card, conferring privileges on persons of Indian origin settled abroad, is formally launched.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1964Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) was established.
6/30/1817Dadabhai Navroji, veteran leader and industrialist, died.
7/21/1975Hindi Post Guards was established by Government.
11/19/1994Lt. Gen. Shankar Roy Choudhury appointed Army Chief following the death of Gen. B.C. Joshi.
10/30/1908Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, freedom fighter and social worker, was born at Pasumpon village, Tamil Nadu.
12/31/1988Treaty signed between India and Pakistan for not to target nuclear sites of each other.
1/16/1920Nani Palkhiwala, famous law expert, was born.
11/28/1999Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir.
6/6/1998All IAF Meteorological Sections were put on high alert from 06 Jun 98, and constant interaction with India Meteorological Department (IMD) at Mumbai and the (IMD) Centre at Ahmedabad resulted in 24 hours tracking and plotting of the cyclone, which was passed down as forecasts to Service and civil authorities in the Saurashtra and Kutch region.
10/29/1930Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail.