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Historical Event on 8/11/1999

The last total solar eclipse of the millenium was seen in northern parts of India and France. This eclipse lasted for 2 min and 23 sec.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/17/1917Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba started living at Hriday Kunj in Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad.
4/5/1848Satara kingdom came to end.
3/29/1977S. N. Mathur became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 02/05/77).
8/7/1905The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
12/11/1992UP acquistion of land in Ayodhya quashed by Allahabad High Court.
11/21/1947First Stamp of Independent India was released
1/7/1993The union govt. acquires 67.703 acres of land in and around the disputed area at Ayodhya and refers the issue to the Supreme Court.
3/20/1602United East India Company of the Netherlands i.e. Dutch East India Company was chartered by States-General of Holland. During its 96-year history, it became one of the world's most powerful companies.
7/1/1913Kumarmanglam Parasshiv Prabhakar, former Chief of Indian Army, was born.
6/20/1972Paras Laxmikant Mhambrey, great Indian cricket pace bowler (Test v England 1996), was born in Bombay.