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Historical Event on 7/10/1991
Shivraj Patil of Congress elected Speaker of 10th Lok Sabha.

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11/6/1946	Gandhiji leaves for Noakhali; issues statement on ""Partial Fast"". Noakhali tour beg
4/23/1955	Political Committee of Asian-African Conference at Bandung adopted an Indian resolution calling for a ban on atomic weapons.
7/24/1991	Industrial licensing scrapped.
4/14/1963	Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, great Hindi writer, politician and professor, passed away at Darjeeling.
2/13/1713	Farrukh Siyar becomes Emperor of India after capturing Red Fort.
10/31/1999	The Ram Janmabhoomi Trust president ends fast in support of his eight-point demands including improvement of 'puja' and 'darshan' arrangements of 'Ram Lala' at the temple.
5/8/1901	British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.
4/4/1905	More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping.
10/2/1971	Gandhi Sadan was handed over to the nation.

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Historical Event on 7/10/1991 Shivraj Patil of Congress elected Speaker of 10th Lok Sabha.

Historical Event on 7/10/1991
Shivraj Patil of Congress elected Speaker of 10th Lok Sabha.