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Historical Event on 1/10/1959
Martin Luther King, the US Black leader, arrived in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/12/1930 | First 'Round Table Conference' started in London. Only Muslim League party was present in the conference and there were no representative of Congress. 16 Indian Kings, 23 British representatives and other 56 Indians took part in this conference. The Muslim League consisted of Sir Agha Khan, Mohammed Ali Jauhar, Quaid-e-Azam, Sir Mohammed Shafi, Fazl-ul-Haq, Chaudhary Zafarullah and Ghulam Hussain. |
| 8/20/1988 | Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed. |
| 10/1/1993 | Two more Election Commissioners appointed. |
| 8/14/1987 | A soldier in a guard of honor attacks Indian Prime Minister Gandhi with his rifle butt at Sri Lanka. |
| 4/1/1995 | The Airports Authority of India (AAI) formed by the merger of IAAI and NAA. AAI manages five international airports, 87 domestic airports and 28 civil enclaves. |
| 2/7/1856 | Wajid Ali Shah, ruler of Oudh, was asked to abdicate by the British Resident on grounds of chronic misrule. |
| 11/29/2000 | India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad. |
| 11/15/1993 | Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme |
| 4/10/1875 | Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj at Bombay and in 1877 in Lahore. |
| 4/12/1912 | Kirpal Singh Narang, social reformer and educationist, was born at Amritsar (Punjab). |
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