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Historical Event on 1/10/1993

Atleast 15 people are killed in Bombay on the 5th day of riots between Hindus and Muslims.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/24/1813Krishna Mohan Bandopadhyay, leader, essay writer and journalist in Bengal, was born.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
6/22/1995India and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sign MOU enabling them to visit suspected militants and persons in detention centres only under humanitarian consideration.
7/25/2000P.T. Usha,Star Indian athlete, announces retirement from International athletics at a press conference in New Delhi.
9/13/1901Jamshedji Bomanji H. Wadia, director and producer, was born. His first film was 'Toofan Mail' (1932).
4/12/1913Gandhiji in Indian Opinion draws attention to new Immigration Bill's failure to fulfil terms of Provisional Settlement of 1911. Kasturba decides to join Passive Resistance struggle.
6/24/1989A majority of opposition members in the Lok Sabha resign on the issue of CAG report on the Bofors gun deal.
12/9/1989Shyama Charan Shukla sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
6/20/1996Govt. of India declares at Geneva conference on 'Global Ban On Nuclear Testing' that it won't sign the CTBT.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.