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Historical Event on 7/10/1992

Dr. Najma Heptulla re-elected Dy. Chairman of Rajya Sabha.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/22/1968Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu.
4/5/1940Charles Freer Andrews, a Christian Missionary, died in Calcutta. He is also referred as ""Deenabandhu Andrews"".
11/1/1991J.N. Dixit appointed the next Foreign Secretary.
10/28/1947Sheikh Mohammad Abdulla invited to form an interim government in J&K.
11/21/1961Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef
5/15/1958Aruna Asaf Ali became the Mayor of Delhi.
12/6/1971US bars aid to India for aggression against Pakistan.
7/3/1991Rupee devalued again from 10.58 to 10.96\% .
12/24/2000The Government re-instates Dr. R.S.Paroda as the Director-General of the ICAR.
12/24/2000Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.