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Historical Event on 7/10/1997
Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/19/1983 | Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends. |
| 5/22/1940 | Erapalli Anantrao Srinivasarao Prasanna, cricketer (one of India's big four spinners, Right-arm Off-break Bowler), was born at Bangalore. He is also the receipent of Arjun Award (1968) and Padmashree (1970). |
| 10/6/1779 | Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born. |
| 1/16/1990 | All Governors asked to resign. |
| 4/1/1869 | Income Tax was imposed. On the same day New Indian Divorce Act came into operation. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 4/3/1984 | Sikh terrorists kill a member of Parliament in his home in New Delhi. |
| 4/13/1997 | Anand wins Dos Hermanas chess crown. |
| 4/29/1947 | Abolition of ""untouchability"". |
| 10/30/1996 | Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay. |
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