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Historical Event on 9/22/1999

India asks Pakistan to prevent the reported attempt by the JKLF to cross the Line of Control (LOC) on October 4.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/31/1994Punjab and Haryana High Court orders plastic surgery to remove 'Jebkatri' (pickpocket) tattooed on the forehead of four women by Amritsar Police.
9/29/1755Robert Lord Clive founded the British empire in India
1/12/1953Patel Chest Institute opened by Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. All India Khadi Board constituted with centre at Bombay.
8/1/1927Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, famous Hindi litterateur, was born.
12/24/1894The first medical conference was held in Calcutta.
4/13/1851Ganga Ram, great social reformer and an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, Punjab, was born at Mangtanwala, now in Pakistan.
12/15/1932Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born.
2/15/1997Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi.
3/11/1990Darbarsingh, former Chief Minister of Punjab, passed away.
2/18/1993Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".