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Historical Event on 8/10/1994

President's rule in J&K extended for another 6 months beginning 3rd Sept.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/18/1997Puttaveeramma of Ishwatha Ashrama Vidyaranyapuram, Vishveshwara Nagar, Mysore, conferred with the 'Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award 1997' for lifelong exemplary service to poor destitute women, in particular deaf and dumb girl children.
2/24/1961Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
10/6/1779Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born.
5/1/1996International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
11/7/1971India admits forces entered Bangladesh to silence artillery.
12/9/1999BJP expels former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh.
8/14/1998The Government transferred Revenue Secretary N. K. Singh and Finance Secretary Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
1/15/1784Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution.
11/19/1977Cyclone hits Andhra Pradesh causing flooding and tidal waves and killing 10,000.
11/13/1935Chandra Prakash Gupta, great educationist, was born at Gaini in UP.