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Historical Event on 7/10/1949

Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980).

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/17/1960Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.
3/3/1707Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.
12/23/1995The crew of the seized aircraft in Bombay confess dropping of arms at Purulia.
1/26/1919Mohammad Cazzambhoy Ibrahim Khan, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests India vs West Indies 1948-49), was born in Bombay.
11/24/1992Lok Sabha approves bill seeking to confer Indian citizenship to a child born to an Indian mother outside the country.
4/9/1986First University in India devoted to hygiene established at Vijaywada.
1/28/1937Suman Kalyanpurkar, famous singer, was born.
3/24/1944Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born.
12/22/1995A Russian-made AN-26 plane forced to land in Bombay following an Intelligence Bureau tip off that it could be the suspected aircraft which dropped arms at Purulia.
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.