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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
| 4/10/1760 |
Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75. |
| 4/10/1875 |
Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj at Bombay and in 1877 in Lahore. |
| 4/10/1880 |
C.Y. Chintamani, renowned journalist, was born. |
| 4/10/1901 |
Amiya Chakravarty, educationist, was born at Serampore in West Bengal. |
| 4/10/1919 |
Miss Mercia Sherwood, an English teacher, was assaulted by a mob in Amritsar. Brig. General. R.E.H. Dyer had given instructions to beat her. |
| 4/10/1930 |
Police raid the headquarters of the Indian National Congress, Bombay. |
| 4/10/1931 |
Balasaheb Vikhe Patil, who worked in the region of Sahkar and Education, was born. |
| 4/10/1935 |
Vasudevaru Kesavaru (K.V. Manalikkera), famous writer and poet, was born at Madras. |
| 4/10/1937 |
Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away. |
| 4/10/1955 |
India and Vietnam affirm the Panchsheel. |
| 4/10/1982 |
Mahatma Gandhi Road Bridge at Patna started by Indira Gandhi. |
| 4/10/1982 |
Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1A) launched. First operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite procured from U.S.A.(Cape Canaveral). |
| 4/10/1993 |
Student hijackers of IA plane overpowered in Lucknow. |
| 4/10/1995 |
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, first non-Congress Prime Minister of India (1977-79) and Chief Minister of Bombay, passed away at the age of 99. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna. |
| 4/10/1996 |
Delhi High Court bans the import of toxic waste in India. |
| 4/10/1996 |
The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt. |
| 4/10/1997 |
Announcement of UP's 70th new district to be re-named after Jyotiba Phule. |
| 4/10/1997 |
Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world. |
| 4/10/1997 |
Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai. |
| 4/10/1999 |
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/24/1826 | Gnanendra Mohan Tagore, first Indian barrister, was born in Calcutta. |
| 10/9/1949 | The Territorial Army of India inaugurated by the Governor General. |
| 3/19/1962 | Raja Kelkar Museum, which belonged to Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar, was opened for the people. |
| 9/16/1995 | Prime Minister inducts 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevates three deputy ministers to the rank of Ministers of State. |
| 3/20/1951 | Madanlal Udhouram Sharma, cricketer (Indian medium pacer in the 70's), was born in Amritsar. |
| 6/4/1932 | Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramhans, passed away. |
| 5/12/1993 | Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 3/3/1978 | Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Calender started. |
| 6/15/1993 | PM Narasimha Rao visits Oman; India and Oman decide to give each other MFN status. |
| 5/25/1999 | India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4. |
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