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Historical Event on 2/10/1803
Jagannath Sunkerseth, great social worker, education lover and one of the sculptors of modern Mumbai, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/23/1908 | Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 5/1/1996 | P. Shiv Shanker, Kerala Governor, resigns in view of the ongoing CBI investigation against him in the hawala case. |
| 10/17/1997 | Prime Minister lays foundation stone of the Science City being set up at Jalandhar, Punjab. |
| 8/15/1972 | Postal Index Number (PIN Code) of 6-digits was introduced. |
| 4/26/1995 | SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA). |
| 11/9/1997 | Film Federation of India chooses Malayalam film 'Guru' as official entry for Oscar awards. |
| 7/11/1998 | The Government reduces customs duty on edible oils under the Open General Licence from 20 to 10 per cent. |
| 4/16/1997 | Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99. |
| 12/11/1926 | Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding |
| 7/15/1903 | Kumaraswamy Kamraj, great freedom fighter, social reformer, political leader and member of the Lok Sabha, was born in a trading family at Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu. |
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