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Historical Event on 2/10/1803
Jagannath Sunkerseth, great social worker, education lover and one of the sculptors of modern Mumbai, was born.
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| 5/13/1996 | Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party. |
| 12/29/1975 | D.K. Barooah elected Congress President. |
| 12/11/1999 | Leander Paes capped a brilliant year with his successive Challenger title, this time in Jaipur, beating Barry Cowan in the final. |
| 2/24/1950 | G.J.M.Gazdar, computational linguist, was born. |
| 4/12/1873 | Kumaran Asan, famous Malyalam poet and social reformer, was born at Kayikkara, Kerala. |
| 9/1/1998 | Leaded petrol is banned in Delhi. |
| 1/17/1909 | Bejoy Kumar Sinha, journalist and social worker, was born at Kanpur. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously. |
| 1/11/1966 | Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born. |
| 7/12/1996 | Lok Sabha adopts resolution extending President's Rule in J & K for 6 months. |
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