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Historical Event on 7/10/1924
Johannes B van Heutsz, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1904-09), died at the age of 73.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/28/1999 | The Delhi High Court stays TRAI's plan to introduce free incoming calls on mobile phones from November 1. |
| 1/23/1999 | An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district. |
| 1/5/1952 | Nawab of Pataudi Sr, cricketer (played polo 3 Tests for England 3 for India), died. |
| 3/13/1997 | H. D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister, presented the G. K. Reddy Memorial Award to Shekhar Gupta, Chief Editor of The Indian Express. |
| 7/19/1965 | Batukeshwar Dutt, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 7/3/1897 | Hansa Mehta, educationist and social reformer, was born at Surat (Gujarat). |
| 3/27/1992 | India signs Friendship Treaty with Ukraine. |
| 3/12/1992 | A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property. |
| 8/18/1956 | Sandeep Madhusudan Patil, great Indian batsman, was born in Bombay. |
| 8/17/1986 | In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"". |
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