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Historical Event on 7/10/1949

Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980).

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1997The second leg of the Indian Satellite circuit held in Ahmedabad.
8/17/1970The first microwave link, which was set up without foreign assistance, was commissioned between Asansol, Dhanbad and Ranchi.
9/9/1993Narsimha Rao, Prime Minister, arrived in Seoul for a three-day visit.
12/12/1992Government asks CBI to probe the demolition of the masjid in Ayodhya.
4/21/1990The first indigenously built missile cruiser boat, 'Vibhuti', was inaugurated and launched.
12/26/1989The Constitution 62nd Amendment Bill, seeking to extend reservation for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in Lok Sabha and state assemblies for another ten years, approved in Parliament.
3/5/1999The indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ''Pinaka'' is successfully test-fired at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa.
9/22/1869Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, great scholar of Sanskrit, master, politician, social reformer, President of India and educationist, was born at Valangaiman village, Tamil Nadu.
4/13/1994United Arab Emirates lost to India in its first official ODI.
2/25/1910Dalai Lama, Tibeten monk, flees from Chinese troops and takes refuge in India.