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Historical Event on 1/10/1997
28th International Film Festival of India opens at Trivandrum.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/15/1992 | Price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas hiked. |
| 10/1/1997 | Parliamentarian and All-India Forward Bloc general secretary, Chitta Basu died during his journey by Howrah-bound Danaput Express from Patna. He was 72. |
| 3/25/1991 | 1991 census report released; India has 844 million people. |
| 2/2/1986 | Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India. |
| 3/1/1997 | India `A' blanks Sri Lanks 5-0 in the inaugural tennis `Tests' in Delhi. |
| 11/16/1990 | Chandrasekhar Government wins confidence motion of 280 for 214 against and 11 abstained (17 members were absent). |
| 1/27/1931 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign. |
| 2/21/1878 | Mother-Pondicherry, greatest world teacher, was born in Paris. |
| 7/12/1994 | Vasant (V. P. Sathe), film critic, journalist, publisher and author, passed away. |
| 6/23/1661 | Princess Catherine of Portugal wed King of England Charles II. Portugal gave island of Mumbai to England as present. The British got Bombay as dowry from Portugal. |
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