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Historical Event on 10/10/1998
Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand was sworn in Chief Justice of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1954 | French settlements in India pass under Indian control. |
| 4/20/2000 | A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V. |
| 4/29/1979 | Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away in New Delhi at the age of 93. |
| 8/18/1872 | Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar Gadgil, who provided new heights to North Indian classical music, was born at Kundanwadi at Kolhapur distrist in Maharashtra. |
| 1/28/1937 | Suman Kalyanpurkar, famous singer, was born. |
| 1/28/1937 | Meerabai, saint poet, passed away. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 11/10/1991 | South Africa's first cricket One-day international since 1970 vs India. |
| 4/15/1996 | Shyam Benegal's film ""The Making of a Mahatma"" released in South Africa. |
| 4/18/1993 | BJP issues white paper on Ayodhya. |
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