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Historical Event on 1/10/1996

All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/9/1991Rajendra Mathur, editor of Hindi daily newspaper 'Navbharat Times', passed away.
3/1/1916Habib Rahman, great Architect, was born at Calcutta.
3/27/199021 people die as a bus accidentally touched a high voltage wire in Karagpur India.
9/9/1991Gold ornaments pledged by the Goans to the Portugese bank returned to owners.
10/12/1935Shivraj Vishwanath Patil, former Speaker of Lok Sabha, was born
7/5/1882Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), classical singer and Muslim mystic, was born. He was instrumental in bringing Sufism to the music.
3/6/1928Nilkanth Ramanbhai Mahipatrao, famous Gujrati litterateur, critic, dramatist and social reformer, died.
11/17/1948Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers.
9/19/1950U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York.
5/27/1998Minoo Masani, 92, co-founder of the Swatantra Party, passed away in Mumbai after a brief illness.