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Historical Event on 10/23/1970
If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour
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| 4/18/1959 | Premier Chou En-lai insists Tibetan Dalai Lama was abducted to India. |
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| 9/1/1988 | Fatte Singrao Gaekwad of Baroda, former Member of Parliament, passed away. |
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| 3/31/1992 | Delhi beat Tamil Nadu in 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy. |
| 9/20/1993 | Narsimha Rao, Prime Minister, arrives in Teheran on a three-day visit. |
| 7/27/1986 | The Supreme Court orders all-India test for medical seats. |
| 9/28/1827 | A few mountain battery trains flourished and kept the Indian component alive as part of the Royal artillery. Recently, it has been established that 8 Company Bombay Artillery survived axing and is now 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery. This day is now celebrated as the Raising Day of the Regiment of Artillery. |
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