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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
12/23/1902Chaudhary Charan Singh was born at Noopur village in Hapur Tehsil near Meerut. He was a freedom fighter and had done many deeds for upliftment of Agriculture in India. He was the Prime Minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980.
7/20/1916Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai.
1/19/1905Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali writer and thinker, passed away.
3/5/1993The government de-reserves the mining industry throwing it open to private sector as well as to foreign investment.
3/22/1964200 die in communal violence in the industrial towns of Jamshedpur and Rourkela.
9/14/199778 persons die and around 250 are injured as four bogies of Ahmedabad-Howrah Express de-rail while crossing a bridge on Hasdeo river near Champa Railway Station in Bilaspur district, Madhya Pradesh.
6/1/1955India's Untouchability (Offence) Act comes into force.
9/11/1968Central Government provides more autonomy to hilly region of Assam.
4/6/1942During the second world war, for the first time Japanese air-bombers attacked India, and the mainland took place at Visakhapatnam.
11/23/1919Sitaram Mahadeo Bapat, teacher and author, was born at Miraj in district Sangli.