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Historical Event on 1/10/1897

Wildemar Modecai Haffkine, famous scientist, innoculated himself with vaccine against Plague publicly to demonstrate the harmlessness of the product in Bombay. The method of preparation of this vaccine has remained the same till now for more then hundred years.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/18/1911Free primary school education is introduced.
2/1/1972International Airports Authority of India established.
5/27/1952United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader.
12/14/1953Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born.
5/27/1951Taraporewala Aquarium was inaugurated at Mumbai by President Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
5/10/1993Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time.
9/20/1933Annie Besant, veteran freedom fighter for India, died.
2/20/1992Pandit Gauri Shankar, famous dance director in Hindi films, passed away.
2/15/1997Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi.
3/3/1906Trailokyanath Goswami, famous Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Nalbari, Assam .