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Historical Event on 4/10/1997

Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/25/1999Baba Amte, a Gandhian and noted social worker, is chosen for the Gandhi Peace Prize.
3/26/1980Bombay gets its first rock concert in 10 years (The Police).
8/25/1997Forest outlaw Veerappan seeks more time to decide on his surrender as per the terms of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka government.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
9/7/1965U.S. suspends military aid to India and Pakistan.
2/6/1990Ashok Shandilya of Railways wins National billiards crown.
12/29/1938Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi, famous litterateur, writer, poet and editor, died at the age of 74.
12/8/1879Jatindranath Mukherjee (Jatin Bagha), famous revolutionary, was born in Jessore.
10/19/1979T. R. Baalu was born in Thalikottai, Distt. Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu).
11/25/1990Sri Lanka all out at 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17.5 overs.