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Historical Event on 8/10/1755
Narayanrao Peshwa was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/1997 | Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30. |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 3/25/1916 | S. M. Pandit, famous painter, was born. |
| 8/27/1952 | Vigyan Mandir inaugurated at Nazafgarh Road, New Delhi. |
| 3/30/1992 | Satyajit Ray received the honorary Oscar award.. |
| 3/3/1978 | Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Calender started. |
| 10/30/1994 | Swaran Singh, 87, former External Affairs minister, died. |
| 3/1/1901 | Vaidya Jogeshchandra Banerjee was born. |
| 3/23/1942 | Second World War was turning against the British and they needed the help of the Indians. So Prime Minister Churhill sent a delegation under Sir Stafford Cripps (Cripps Mission) to hold talks with the Indian leaders on the future of the subcontient in UK, which could not take place because of the non-cooperation movement and they left after a fortnight. They submitted their report in April 1942 which was rejected by the Congress and Muslim League. |
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