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Historical Event on 10/6/1997

International Commodity Exchange Division of the India Pepper and Spice Trade Association in Kochi opened.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/16/1999Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin).
4/15/1919Arjan Singh, Air Chief Marshal and Padma Vibhushan, DFC, was born in Lyalpur.
8/3/1960Gopal Sharma, great Indian cricket off-spinner (2 Tests 1984-85), was born in Kanpur.
5/3/1977Hamid Dalwai, father of Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal in Maharashtra, passed away.
11/2/1885Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first great Marathi musical drama playwright, died.
8/1/1996T. S. R. Subramaniam was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1998.
11/1/1999Soli Sorbajee is re-appointed the Attorney General.
4/9/1997Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy in Gwalior.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.