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Historical Event on 1/10/1975

India accords recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1984Ravishankar Maharaj, freedom fighter and national leader of the country, died at the age of 101.
10/1/1997Bus with 70 people fell into a stream near Cuddappah.
5/20/1915Gandhiji founded Satyagraha Ashram (later known as Sabarmati Ashram after the name of the river) at Ahmedabad.
12/8/2000EC nod for Paswans's party to be known as Lok Janshakti Party.
11/2/1990Many die in firing in Ayodhya as Karsevaks storm the Ram Janma Bhumi/Babri Masjid structure. Curfew in many areas in north and west India to prevent communal violence. Several people die in violence.
5/27/1906Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day.
8/2/1877Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, lawyer, politician and social worker, was born in Sagar, M.P.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
6/10/1928Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai.
4/24/1974Ramdhari Singh alias 'Dinkar', veteran famous Hindi writer and poet, passed away.