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Historical Event on 1/10/1975

India accords recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/18/1925Narayandatt Tiwar, former Central minister and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born.
2/16/1993Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy.
7/18/1695Joannes Camphuys, Governal General of Dutch-Indies, died at the age of 61.
5/1/1915Rameshwar Shukla 'Anchal', modern Hindi poet, novelist and essay writer, was born.
7/25/1970Pillai A. Thanu, former Chief Minister of Kerala, passed away.
2/27/1999Union Budget presented. Fiscal deficit cut to 4.4 per cent.
5/9/1996LDF wins 80 sets and UDF 59 in Kerala elections .
5/9/1996Nizam Shah became the Sultan of Dehli.
1/1/1950Inauguration of National Chemical Laboratory at Mumbai.
10/23/1970If 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