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Historical Event on 10/6/1999

Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/5/1931Mahatma Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign a pact referred in Indian History as ""Gandhi-Irwin Pact"", after which the civic disobedience movement was taken back.
9/16/1931Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly known as George Sudarshan, was born in Kottayam, Kerala. He was a physicist of world repute.
6/6/1916Lord Kitchener, the premier soldier of the British Empire, passed away tragically last night as the ''Hampshire'', the cruiser on which he was traveling to Russia to boost sagging morale, struck a mine or was torpedoed off the Orkney Islands and sank, drowning all aboard. Life in London came to a standstill, while Paris and Washington were shocked by the news. In the last half-century, through tireless energy and devotion to imperial duty, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 66, commanded in Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, and India. Two years ago, he had become the War Secretary.
4/26/1946V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.
4/9/1986First University in India devoted to hygiene established at Vijaywada.
1/14/1998Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College.
5/20/1915Gandhiji founded Satyagraha Ashram (later known as Sabarmati Ashram after the name of the river) at Ahmedabad.
2/22/1885Jatindra Mohan Sen Gupta, great nationalist leader, was born.
11/24/1941Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar.
7/18/1993India beats France 3-2 in a sensational Davis Cup tie to enter into the semi-final.