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Historical Event on 8/10/1993
Election Commission withdrew controversial order. By-polls to be held before 10.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/5/1916 | Archik Venkatesh Gopalkrishna, great poet, journalist and orator, was born at Dharwar, Mysore. |
| 1/26/1957 | Ashok Omprakash Malhotra, cricketer (Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84), was born in Amritsar. |
| 1/21/1820 | Dalpat Rai, modern Gujrati poet, was born. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 1/6/1992 | Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs Australia at the SCG. |
| 5/16/1975 | Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union. |
| 12/12/1999 | No transparency in judicial appointments, says Justice Kuldip Singh, retired judge of the Supreme Court. |
| 10/29/1930 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail. |
| 5/31/1994 | Pandit Samtaprasad, famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 6/24/1969 | Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), passed away. |
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