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Historical Event on 10/4/1977

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, External Affairs Minister of India, addressed the UNO General Assembly in Hindi language.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/4/1977Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born.
2/20/1846Duleep Singh was recognised as the ruler. British captured Lahore.
3/1/1924Naresh Mehta was born.
8/30/1645Indians and Dutch sign the peace treaty.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
8/13/1995Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar.
3/11/1689Sambhaji, Shivaji's successor, who was captured at Sangameshwar, was assasinated in the prison of Aurangzeb by Mughal officer Muqurab Khan.
10/15/1915Dr. I. Gopalkrishnan, Cricket Test Umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Tamil Nadu.
6/30/1823Sir Dinshaw Manokji Petit, famous industrialist, was born.
12/25/1880Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, a nationalist Muslim leader, politician and journalist, was born at Yusufpur in Uttar Pradesh.