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Historical Event on 4/10/1996
The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/25/1938 | Farokh Manekshaw Engineer, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75), was born in Bombay. |
| 2/10/1999 | P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi. |
| 8/5/1921 | Malhi Govind, modern Sindhi novelist, was born. |
| 3/3/1919 | Hari Narayan Apte, famous Marathi novelist, passed away. |
| 10/6/1949 | Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of National Defence Academy in Kharakvasla near Pune. |
| 5/18/1998 | India may take the US to WTO. |
| 9/12/1931 | Triloki Nath Madan, educationist and journalist, was born at Srinagar, Kashmir. |
| 11/6/1952 | Dipal Jayant Tilak, journalist and editor, was born. |
| 9/21/1912 | Firoz Gandhi, great politician, was born. |
| 12/3/1971 | During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began. |
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