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Historical Event on 8/10/1992
P. P. Thorat, retired Lt and General, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/5/1872 | V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/20/1957 | South Africa banned Indian Cargo ships to dock at their Ports. |
| 4/19/1998 | Kottayam in Kerala becomes the first district in India to complete computerisation of the talluk offices connecting them with the district headquarters. |
| 8/15/1947 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India. |
| 1/20/1993 | Captain Karamjeet Singh, first Pramveer Chakra Awardee, passed away. |
| 4/1/1989 | UN Peace-keeping Force arrives in Windhoek to prefare for independence of Namibia. |
| 12/13/1984 | The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect. |
| 6/25/2000 | The Government agrees to the bifurcation of the Telecom Ministry. |
| 1/16/1942 | Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Gandhi as head of Indian National Congress. |
| 12/28/1974 | Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first Chief Minister of Rajasthan State, died. |
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