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Historical Event on 4/10/1760
Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/4/1979 | India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429. |
| 4/1/1920 | S. Bhattacharya, cricket Test Umpire for 2 tests from 1963-70, was born in Delhi. |
| 3/19/1972 | India and Bangladesh singed mutual aid treaty for peace and friendship for 25 years. |
| 9/6/2000 | Telecom workers launch a nation-wide strike in protest against inadequate safeguards prior to the corporatisation of the department from October 1. |
| 2/15/1976 | The Division of Publication & Information was established in I.C.M.R. Headquarters. |
| 2/12/1882 | Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born. |
| 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 |
| 5/4/1959 | Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China. |
| 3/9/1951 | Ustad Zakir Hussain, famous Tabla player, was born. |
| 4/13/1772 | Warren Hastings, who became the president of their Bengal Council, was appointed in the court of Directors of the East India Company. |
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