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Historical Event on 1/10/1998

Geet Sethi retains National billiards title in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/3/1953Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away.
1/7/1685Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born.
7/21/1988Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3.
7/25/1992Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma sworn in as the ninth President of India. He remain in this office from July 25, 1992 to July 25, 1997.
1/14/1882Maharshi Raghunath Dhondo Karve, father of Family Planning and Sex Education, was born.
12/17/1987Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
10/27/1947Maharana Pratap Singh of Udaipur, great freedom fighter, soldier and revolutionary, passed away. His son Amar Singh succeeded him.
10/19/1774Members of the Council and the Judge of Supreme Court of England came to improve the management in India.
7/15/1904Mogubai Kurdikar, veteran singer of 'Jaypur Gharana', was born.