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Historical Event on 10/12/1997

India Seniors lift Challenger Trophy cricket title.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/1989Vasantdada Banduji Patil, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Governor of Rajasthan, passed away.
8/15/1992Karnataka seeks army help to nab sandal wood smuggler Veerappan.
12/25/1995First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras.
10/9/2000The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle.
5/15/1993K.M. Cariappa, field marshal and Major General, passed away at the age of 93.
12/9/1999Several MPs in the Lok Sabha demand resignation of the CBI chief in the Priyadarshini Matto murder case.
6/14/1985M.C. Sharma was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 10-12-1985.
12/7/1979Ramandeep Singh Gill, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Oslo, Norway.
5/1/1981Sindhudurga district was formed in Maharashtra State.
3/17/1988First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space.