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Historical Event on 2/10/1806

Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Kainakary , Kerala.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/3/1898Udayshankar Bhatt, modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist, was born.
2/28/1988Jaydev, famous music director, passed away.
10/28/1998The 1998 Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award is presented to 11 young scientists.
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
1/24/1958First international Film Festival started in Mumbai.
11/12/1997India elected to executive board of UNESCO.
3/31/1871Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, freedom fighter and loyal Congress leader 'Lion of Karnataka', was born.
1/31/1992LTTE Supremo, V. Prabhakaran, declared offender in Rajiv Gandhi murder case and ordered to surrender by a Madras court.
8/4/1967World's longest and highest Dam 'Nagarjun Sagar' made by Masonary System was inaugrated.
4/22/1983Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85.