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Historical Event on 7/10/1949
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/25/1880 | Syed Muhammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, professor, writer and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, was born at Mustafabad village in the Rae Bareli district of U.P. |
| 12/28/1971 | Nanak Singh, famous novelist and poet, died at Preet Nagar. |
| 3/29/1849 | Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar. |
| 8/22/1915 | Shambhu Mishra, Bengali actor, director and playwright, was born. |
| 4/21/1995 | Medium range 'Akash', surface-to-air-missile, flight trial successful. |
| 8/27/1994 | Indian soldiers and Muslim militants clash in Kashmir. |
| 6/13/1991 | Shiv Sharma, Doordarshan Director General, was shot at in Delhi by suspected Punjab terrorists. |
| 6/8/1992 | Assets of 31 persons including Harshad Mehta attached. |
| 10/16/1942 | Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India. |
| 8/5/2000 | Lala Amarnath (88), former Indian cricketer, died in New Delhi. |
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