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Historical Event on 1/10/1996
All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/16/1993 | Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
| 6/23/1911 | King George V was today crowned ""King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India,"" at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony evoking the continuity and tradition of the British monarchy magnificent spectacle. Thousands of spectators crowded the streets for hours, hoping to catch a glimpse of the royal procession. Partition of Bengal notified to create the Presidency of Bengal. The Imperial capital shifted from Calcutta to Delhi. |
| 3/15/1931 | M.I.Mohammad Ghose, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-80, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 8/2/1994 | Opposition quits Parliament panels, boycotts sessions. |
| 3/31/1992 | The new five-year Export-Import policy relaxes restrictions. |
| 12/29/1984 | Rajiv Gandhi claims for Indian Prime Minister post after his landslide majority in 8th General Elections. |
| 4/9/1965 | After Indo-Pak conflict of 1965, the Raksha Medal, Samar Seva Star and some others were introduced. |
| 5/12/1993 | Lok Sabha okays extension of President's rule in the former BJP-ruled states. |
| 2/24/1786 | Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India. |
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