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Historical Event on 8/10/1991
Delhi airport police foils an attempt by a Saudi national to smuggle out a minor girl named Ameena.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/9/1977 | Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away. |
| 5/24/1992 | D. R. Bhagwat, veteran journalist, passed away. |
| 2/14/2000 | Mr. B. Rachaiah (78), former Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Goa, died in a hospital in Bangalore. |
| 7/1/1975 | Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, declared a 20-point economic programme. |
| 12/12/1964 | Maithili Sharan Gupta, famous Indian poet, Hindi litterateur, writer, social worker, patriot and Padma Bhushan awardee, died. |
| 11/17/1928 | Lala Lajpat Rai died in Lahore after being seriously wounded in the barbarous lathi charge of 30th October. He is referred as the ""Lion of Punjab"" or ""Punjab Kesari"" and is remembered as freedom fighter, nationalist, educationist, lawyer, thinker, writer, social reformer, orator and a passionate fighter for the revival of the ancient Indian culture and |
| 6/25/1975 | President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day. |
| 4/6/1990 | Bhalchandra Tryambak Randive, senior Marxist leader and founder President of WTU, died. |
| 7/22/1987 | A.G. Kripal Singh, 14 Tests for India and one century on debut, passed away. |
| 3/25/1927 | Leslie Claudius, India field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born. |
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