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Historical Event on 1/10/1979

Anand Gopal Shauri, litterateur and journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/12/1905Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London.
7/6/1935Dalai Lama, the 14th incarnate and religious leader of Tibet, was born. He was born to Tenzin Gyotso (His Holiness the VIVth Dalai Lama) in Taksten Village, Chhija Nangso, Tibet. He was awarded with Nobel Prize for Peace in 1989.
8/7/1999A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state.
7/3/1661Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II.
11/14/1996Competition Post Card', a new category of postcard, priced Rs. 2 introduced.
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
11/17/1999India beats New Zealand by seven wickets to win the one-day cricket series in New Delhi. Saurav Ganguly adjudged the 'man of the match' and 'man of the series'.
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
5/17/1992Import of 106 life-saving drugs and 37 equipments allowed.
1/20/1997The third Test between India and South Africa ends in a draw in Johannesburg.