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Historical Event on 2/10/1982

K. R. Meher-Homji, cricket wicket keeper (one Test, one catch, no stumps), passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/18/2000Supreme Court gives the nod for construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river.
11/27/1870Dattatreya Balwant Parasnis, famous history researcher and collector of historical items, was born.
1/12/1918C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous film music director, was born.
1/10/1896Shri Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (Kakasaheb), famous politician, freedom fighter, lawyer, prolific writer, social reformer, nationalist leader and litterateur, was born.
1/23/1897Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War.
1/26/199647th Republic Day celebrated;Chief Guest was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil.
7/12/1932The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir.
3/23/1919Subhadra Joshi, freedom fighter, was born. She took active participation in Salt and non cooperation movement. She also motivated the freedom movement through her newspaper ""Hamara Sangram"".
2/11/1818Britishers captured the 'Ajinkyatara' fort which belonged to the Marathas.
11/9/1904Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani