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Historical Event on 12/31/1999

This Indian Railway, carries more than 11 million passengers in a day, runs on more than 62,000 route kilometers and more than 1,07,000 track kilometers daily. This is the largest Railway System under Single Management.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/18/1995President's Rule imposed in UP and the State Assembly put in suspended animation.
9/5/1997CBI chargesheets former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief for possessing assets disproportionate to his income.
9/20/1992Vithhal Badgelwar, painter and sculptor, passed away.
7/22/1875Nandkishor Bal, great Oria poet, novelist and critic, was born.
10/21/1994Government notifies substantial increase in the ceiling on election expenses on Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.
3/24/1987First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.
10/13/1989Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalika Bills defeated in Rajya Sabha.
7/17/1996Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth.
6/18/1993Sunil Mittal, businessman, denies getting any money from Harshad Mehta.
7/14/1999Arvind Dave is appointed Governor of Arunachal Pradesh.