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Historical Event on 10/10/1978
Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/26/1906 | M.P. Sivagnanam, famous Tamil writer and social worker, was born at Madras. |
| 6/1/1790 | A treaty was signed between Marathas, Britishers and Nizam. |
| 7/1/1989 | Yashvantrao Chavan Open University was established. |
| 6/17/1995 | Motilal Vohra, UP Governor, sets agenda for a two-day special session of the UP Assembly asking the speaker to take up a motion against self first. |
| 7/17/1987 | V. P. Singh announces resignation from Congress; R. Venkataraman elected President of India. |
| 10/31/1984 | Rajiv Gandhi sworn in as Prime Minister of India by Gyani Zail Singh, President of India, at New Delhi. He held this office till December 1, 1989. |
| 12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
| 8/4/1993 | Swami Chinmayananda, master in study of Bhagwadgita, died at the age of 76 in San Diego. |
| 10/27/1920 | Kocheril Raman Narayanan was born in the village of Uzhavoor in Kottayam district, Kerala. |
| 4/22/1840 | James Princes, British research scientist and archeaologist, passed away. |
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