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Historical Event on 10/10/1964

Ravi Shankar performs at Town Hall in New York.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/27/1987B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal.
5/18/1933Gandhiji commences at noon 21 days' fast for self-purification; released unconditionally at 9 p.m.
3/4/1990V. P. Singh resigns as party president, but asked to continue.
5/25/1999India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.
3/4/1925Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away.
3/25/19911991 census report released; India has 844 million people.
7/4/1997Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls.
1/1/1980This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"".
12/1/1966Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union.
1/8/1890Ramchandra Varma, renowned editor, was born. He also has the credit in making the Hindi Dictionary.