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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
1/11/1975Oil struck in third Bombay High rig.
12/25/1991Ajit Singh expelled from the JD.
3/20/2000Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.
7/18/1987Amitabh Bachhan resigns his Lok Sabha membership.
6/14/1991Punjab was declared ""disturbed area""; army deployed.
7/13/1907Hari Vishnu Kamat, great politician, was born.
7/31/1902Keshav Shankar Pillai, great writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Kayamkulam in Kerala.
10/29/1962China attacked India.
11/5/1907Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions.
6/18/1995The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi.