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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
5/18/1974Jayaprakash Narayan led a procession against economic conditions in Patna. There was lathi charged and he issued a call for total revolution. He also started the 'Citizens for Democracy' movement.
9/19/1960Sindhu River water-sharing settement was signed between India and Pakistan.
9/12/1912T. A. Ramachandran, cricket Test Umpire of one test during 1948-49, was born in Tamil Nadu.
12/31/1966Bishen Singh Bedi made his Test Cricket debut vs West Indies at Calcutta.
12/15/1997Orissa Janata Dal unit splits with 29 of 43 Legislature Party members forming 'Biju Janata Dal'.
7/26/2000The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
11/22/1989General Election ( 9th) of India begins for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in 5 states.
3/26/1987Hyderabad beat Delhi on first innings to win the Ranji Trophy.
2/6/1887Manabendra Nath Roy (his childhood name was Narendranath Bhattacharya), leftist thinker, great Indian politician and philosophist, was born at Arbelia village of 24-Parganas of West Bengal. He was the founder of 'Radical Democratic Party' after quitting Congress during World War II.
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.