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Historical Event on 2/10/1859
General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny.
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| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 11/18/1999 | Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including its Chief Commander, are killed in a fierce encounter with Special Operations Group (SOG) in Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 10/3/1978 | Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta. |
| 4/20/1989 | R. S. Pathak, Chief Justice of India, elected to the World Court. |
| 7/23/1988 | Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), died. |
| 1/14/1991 | Chitragupta, famous film music director, passed away. |
| 7/18/1857 | The Calcutta, Mumbai and Madras Universities were established. |
| 4/27/1878 | Calcutta University started Women's Education, and allowed women to appear in the Entrance Examination. |
| 5/3/1971 | Dhanjay Ramchandra Gadgil, famous economist, passed away. |
| 8/8/1990 | Violent protests rock Bihar against Mandal Commission Report implementation. |
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