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Historical Event on 8/10/1993

Election Commission withdrew controversial order. By-polls to be held before 10.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/23/1942Jabbar Patel, film producer, was born.
12/25/1771Shah Alam II sat on the Throne of Dehli. Marathas captured Delhi and induced Shah Alam to return to Delhi after an absence of 18 years from the captial.
10/10/2000The world's first elected woman Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike died of heart attack in Colombo.
10/9/1947P. C. Joshi, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (CPI), appealed to all LEFT parties to rally around Nehru to fight for peace.
8/13/1995Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar.
9/5/1979Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma.
6/4/1941National Seva Dal was established.
8/21/2000Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee.
8/29/1998Prasar Bharti ordinance promulgated.
2/1/1944Arun Tikekar, editor and writer, was born.