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On January 22, 1999, australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India. The year's #1 song was "Believe" by Cher. Gabe Davis, Alessandro Bastoni, András Schäfer would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · January 22, 1999
Graham Stuart Staines was an Australian Christian missionary who, along with his two sons, Philip and Timothy, was burnt to death in India by members of the Bajrang Dal, a militant Hindutva organisation. In 2003, Bajrang Dal member Dara Singh was convicted of leading the murderers and was sentenced to life in prison.
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1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1999th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 999th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade.
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Australian missionary killed in India (1941–1999)
Graham Stuart Staines was an Australian Christian missionary who, along with his two sons, Philip and Timothy, was burnt to death in India by members of the Bajrang Dal, a militant Hindutva organisation. In 2003, Bajrang Dal member Dara Singh was convicted of leading the murderers and was sentenced to life in prison.
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