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Historical Event on 1/10/1953

Opening ceremony of Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research held.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/9/1969Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'.
8/29/1992Eco-mark introduced in Indian market to distinguish eco-friendly products, .
10/27/1997UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members.
12/12/1901Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore founded the first dance school called as ""Kala Bhawan"" and established the ""Barahamacharya Ashram"", the core of Vishwa Bharati University of Shantiniketan, near Bolpur. It was formally opened on December.
3/14/1997Veerendra Patil, 73, twice former Chief Minister of Karnataka, passed away.
12/13/1902Ilachandra Joshi, famous Hindi novelist, story writer, critic and journalist, was born.
1/23/1897Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War.
5/13/1648Construction of the Red Fort at Dehli was completed.
4/6/1942During the second world war, for the first time Japanese air-bombers attacked India, and the mainland took place at Visakhapatnam.
12/19/1994K. A. P. Vishwanathan, famous Tamil author, passed away.