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Historical Event on 10/1/1997
Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/31/1997 | Lakhubhai Pathak, prominent NRI businessman who had accused Narasimha Rao of cheating $ 100,000, died in London. |
| 6/28/1996 | India opens its office (based in Gaza city) in the area under the Palestinian Authority. |
| 4/15/1963 | Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler), was born in Ghaziabad. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 11/18/1991 | In the by-elections, Congress gets 8 Lok Sabha seats and suffers rout in UP assembly, while BJP gets absolute majority. |
| 11/18/1991 | Allau'd-din Khalji declared himself as King of Delhi after assissinating Jalal'ud-din Khalji. (19 0r 20). |
| 5/16/1932 | Hundreds die in fighting between Muslims and Hindus at Bombay. |
| 6/9/1999 | The Indian army occupies two key positions in the Batalik sector. |
| 1/1/1880 | Money order system was introduced. |
| 1/1/1926 | Mohammad Abdul Hye, educationist, was born at Alitangani, (Nowgong). |
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