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Historical Event on 4/10/1997
Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/30/1998 | Sonia Gandhi names Ashok Ghelot and Sheila Dixit as Chief Ministers of Rajasthan and Delhi respectively. |
| 7/9/1995 | 17 Indian mountaineers peaked Jogambha in the Garhwal Himalayas. |
| 1/4/1940 | Shrikant Sinkar, famous Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 10/10/1991 | Anantrao Laxmanrao Kulmarni, editor of monthly magzine 'Sajjangad' and weekly 'Samarth', died. |
| 7/24/1997 | Mahasweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, is recipient of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts for her writings on indigenous communities. |
| 6/19/1990 | 13 Sri Lankan Tamils, including EPRLF Secretary General Padmanabha, were shot dead in Madras reportedly by LTTE men. |
| 3/3/1939 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention. |
| 12/30/1946 | Jawaharlal Nehru calls on Gandhiji, who says, ""My reason wholly supports my heart"". |
| 1/8/1947 | Rajasthan University established at Jaipur. |
| 5/27/1998 | Minoo Masani, 92, co-founder of the Swatantra Party, passed away in Mumbai after a brief illness. |
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