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Historical Event on 1/10/1975
India accords recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/18/1925 | Narayandatt Tiwar, former Central minister and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born. |
2/16/1993 | Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy. |
7/18/1695 | Joannes Camphuys, Governal General of Dutch-Indies, died at the age of 61. |
5/1/1915 | Rameshwar Shukla 'Anchal', modern Hindi poet, novelist and essay writer, was born. |
7/25/1970 | Pillai A. Thanu, former Chief Minister of Kerala, passed away. |
2/27/1999 | Union Budget presented. Fiscal deficit cut to 4.4 per cent. |
5/9/1996 | LDF wins 80 sets and UDF 59 in Kerala elections . |
5/9/1996 | Nizam Shah became the Sultan of Dehli. |
1/1/1950 | Inauguration of National Chemical Laboratory at Mumbai. |
10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
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