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Historical Event on 10/12/1998

Sushma Swaraj is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister in place of Mr. Sahib Singh Verma

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/11/1906Chetput Ramaswami Pattabhi Raman, politician and social worker, was born at Madras.
11/17/1994Dr. Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet, wins Saraswati Samman.
3/31/1959Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India.
5/7/1985Adoor Gopalakrishnan adjudged Best Director (Mukhamukham) in national film awards.
3/17/1769To establish the business of English Mill's Cloth, East Indiian Company had imposed various restriction on weavers of Bengal to destroy the Muslim and textile industry in Bengal , which was meant to destroy the Indian cloth and 'malmal' industry.
1/26/1997Government prohibits manual scavenging and construction of dry latrines in six states (AP, Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tripura, West Bengal) and all UTs.
3/30/1923New financial measures come into force, including restoration of Salt Tax.
10/20/1920Censor Board, after examining the film 'Ahilya Uddhar' on October 20, started mentioning the number of reels as well as the length in feet on the Censor Certificate. The film had already been released earlier on August 23, 1919.
10/26/1934Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.
2/13/1977Jasawant Singh, famous physiologist, passed away.