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Historical Event on 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.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/7/1992 | Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shooted and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha. |
| 6/5/1882 | Cyclonic Storm & floods in Arabian Sea hit Bombay. About 100,000 people drowned. |
| 1/11/1999 | Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu. |
| 9/25/1990 | S. S. Chauhan, one of the students who had suffered severe burns while trying to immolate himself in protest against implementation of Mandal Commission Report, died. |
| 7/11/1994 | Delhi IG (prisons) Kiran Bedi wins Magsaysay Award for public service. |
| 11/22/1916 | Shanti Ghosh, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Calcutta. She was one of the accused in famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka. |
| 7/27/1995 | 11 Cong-I and National Conference activists were gunned down in J&K after they were abducted from their homes. |
| 7/2/1905 | Shantiswaroop Dhavan, former Governor of West Bengal, was born. |
| 3/20/1952 | Anand Armitraj, great Indian tennis player (Brother of Vijay), was born. |
| 8/1/2000 | Lt. Gen. Padmanabhan to be new Army chief replacing Gen. V. P. Malik. |
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