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Historical Event on 4/10/1997

Announcement of UP's 70th new district to be re-named after Jyotiba Phule.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/4/1972Raman Vijayan, Indian soccer (Football) player, was born in Kandramanikam at Pasumpon, Tamil Nadu.
10/29/1991Janta Dal leaders inculding V.P. Singh arrested on way to Ayodhya.
8/10/1963The Kamraj Plan.
2/25/1992Railway budget proposes 20\% hike in upper class passenger fares.
12/6/1997Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts return to earth following a two-week science mission on an enquiry awaiting them because of botched satellite release. Columbia and its crew of six, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, swooped through a clear chilly sky and landed on runway at Kennedy Space Centre. Astronauts save runaway $10-million satellite by catching it with their hands.
11/27/1888Ganesh Vasudeo Malvankar, great social worker, educationist, writer and first speaker of Lok Sabha, was born in Baroda.
12/23/1889Mehr Chand Mahajan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
6/13/1995India and France sign Bilateral Investment Protection pact.
11/10/1992Attorney General G. Ramaswamy, under cloud for his dealings with Standard Chartered Bank, resigns.
7/29/1993Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha.