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Historical Event on 1/10/1967
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of Women's University, Karnataka, founded to pay gratitude to Rani Chainema of Kitur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/23/1927 | Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station. |
| 5/13/1648 | Construction of the Red Fort at Dehli was completed. |
| 8/20/1917 | Raja Kulkarni, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Mhaswa village in Maharashra. |
| 1/28/1911 | The famous Hope diamond, once worn by Marie Antoinette, was bought tonight for over $300,000 by Ned McLean, son of John McLean. Mrs. McLean wore it as a head ornament, guarded by a former Secret Service man who in turn was guarded by two private detectives. Walnut-sized and exquisitely blue in color, the 44.5-carat stone stems from India. Its owners included Louis XIV, Louis XVI, and a London banker named Hope. A sinister history of ill luck, madness, and violent death clings to the unique gem. |
| 9/18/1972 | India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971. |
| 5/5/1942 | Henry Albert John Gidney, great leader and politician, died at New Delhi. |
| 12/11/1926 | Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding |
| 6/20/1992 | Carnatic musician Maharajapuram Santhanam died in a car accident in Villupuram in Tamil Nadu. |
| 10/21/1994 | Government notifies substantial increase in the ceiling on election expenses on Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. |
| 9/29/1964 | 1,000 people were killed as a reservoir burst. |
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