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Historical Event on 10/2/1996

Mother Teresa made honorary US citizen.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1985Accord reached on the Assam foreign nationals issue, agitation called off.
7/7/1905Six Language penel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note changed to Red with Special text mentioned, 'At any office of issue not situated in Burma'.
11/10/1990Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta.
11/27/2000After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.
5/1/1908Praful Chaki committed suicide after he threw a bomb on Judge Kingsford of Mujaffarpur, killing two inocent women.
1/12/1901Umashankar Dikshit, senior leader of Indira Congress, was born.
6/13/1927Henry C. K. ""Clan"" Petty-Fitzmaurice, Governor of India (1888-94), passed away at the age of 82.
12/11/1872Rajkhova Benudhar, modern Assamese poet, was born.
2/20/1968Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay.
6/15/1991General Election (10th) of India ends. In this election Indian National Congress won.