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Historical Event on 7/10/1997

Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/13/1996M. Karunanidhi (DMK) sworn in as Tamil Nadu CM.
12/14/1901Gandhiji reaches Rajkot via Porbunder.
9/1/1978Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif, PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Aug/1981.
2/16/1942The third IAF unit to operate the Lysander was No.4 Squadron, formed with four aircraft on 16 February 1942. This squadron was to continue to operate the Westland aircraft until it too was re-equipped with the Hurricane in June 1943.
3/21/1982Nadmuri Tarak Rama Rao forms Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh.
4/24/199824 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.
6/16/1925Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died.
9/14/1949Hindi declared the national language by the Constituent Assembly after a three-day debate.
9/14/1949Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal was succeeded as the Viceroy of Protuguese India by Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder at Portuguese power in India.
4/18/1898Damodar Hari Chapekar, India's first revolutionary, was hanged in the Yervada Central Jail. He was punished for killing the Rand and Ayrest British Officials.