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Historical Event on 7/10/1997

Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1991Kerala declared the first fully literate state in the country.
3/5/1868Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar alias Save Dada, who filmed the felicitation function of Wrangler R. P. Paranjapye, was born. This film was titled as ""The Fresh Indian Regular of Cambridge University."" He was the First Short Documentary Film Maker of India.
7/23/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow.
10/18/19921,000 police personnel occupy the Golden Temple in Amritsar to keep Punjab separatists away.
7/30/1947The part of Kashmir, North West Frontier Provience (NWFP), was swallowed up by Pakistan. The formality of raising the flag being done in November.
7/6/1939Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore.
12/1/1947India all out for 58 vs Australia at Gabba.
7/28/1989Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was disqualified from Rajya Sabha. It was the first case of such disqualification from the House under anti-defection law.
4/10/1760Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75.
12/11/1994H.D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader, assumes office as CM of Karnataka.