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Historical Event on 7/2/1999

Sahara India, sponsor of the Sahara Cup annual cricket series between India and Pakistan in Canada, withdrew sponsorship in view of the Kargil conflict.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/22/1764The Battle of Buxar was fought between armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British East India Company led by Hector Munro.
10/28/1999Insurance Bill is introduced amid protest in the Lok Sabha.
10/2/1982Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance minister of India, died.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
11/15/1621Jahangir captured Kakda Fort.
5/7/195081 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected.
2/23/1997Justice J. S. Verma appointed Chief Justice of India.
7/14/196985 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur.
1/21/1882Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born.
8/11/1956The Lok Sabha passed the States Reorganisation Act.