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Historical Event on 1/10/1996
Centre sets up Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/1/1881 | Cambridge Missionaries founded St. Stephen's College in Delhi. |
| 1/17/1909 | Bejoy Kumar Sinha, journalist and social worker, was born at Kanpur. |
| 6/23/1661 | Princess Catherine of Portugal wed King of England Charles II. Portugal gave island of Mumbai to England as present. The British got Bombay as dowry from Portugal. |
| 1/19/1839 | Aden conquered by British East India Company. |
| 1/10/1897 | Wildemar Modecai Haffkine, famous scientist, innoculated himself with vaccine against Plague publicly to demonstrate the harmlessness of the product in Bombay. The method of preparation of this vaccine has remained the same till now for more then hundred years. |
| 9/7/1999 | Haider Noorani, BJP candidate for the Anantang Lok Sabha seat, killed in bomb blast. |
| 12/19/1961 | Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops. |
| 7/31/1946 | Jinnah threatens sanctions of ""Direct Action"". |
| 12/17/1910 | Keki Khursedji Tarapore, cricketer (0-72 in his only Test for India), was born in Bombay. |
| 5/23/1931 | Sharad Joshi, famous Hindi poet, playwright and journalist, was born. |
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