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Historical Event on 12/16/1999
The second phase of national AIDS programme is launched.

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6/4/1997	Defence Ministry denies Washington Post's report that India has deployed Prithvi missile on Punjab border with Pakistan.
2/15/1992	Sain Swami Gangeshwaranandji, chief of `Udasin Sampraday', passed away.
11/3/1995	Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim.
5/8/1901	British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.
7/23/1903	Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903
9/8/1952	The Copyright bill was signed during the first world convention by 35 nations including India at Geneva.
6/23/2000	Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath gets Amnesty International Global award for human rights journalism..
3/12/1930	Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
1/14/1946	Two jetties collapse in Ganges; 160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed.
3/19/1998	BJP-led coalition government is sworn in. Atal Behari Vajpayee became the second time Prime Minister of India.

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Historical Event on 12/16/1999 The second phase of national AIDS programme is launched.

Historical Event on 12/16/1999
The second phase of national AIDS programme is launched.