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Historical Event on 4/10/1999
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/19/1726 | Khandoballal died. |
| 4/9/1783 | Tipu Sultan drives out English from Bednoor, India. |
| 1/16/1942 | Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Gandhi as head of Indian National Congress. |
| 2/16/1933 | Surya Sen Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, who attacked the Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army and was underground on Jalalabad Hills, was arrested. |
| 6/10/1832 | Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India), was born. |
| 8/27/1976 | Major-General (Kumari) Gertude Ali Ram, the first women General in Indian Army, was appointed as the first Director of Military Nursing Services at the Army Headquarters. |
| 5/7/1889 | Dr. Narayan Subbarao Hardikar, freedom fighter, journalist and Padmabhushan awardee, was born. |
| 11/30/1994 | Mrinalini Desai, freedom fighter and famous litterateur, died. |
| 10/23/1934 | Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress. |
| 8/4/2000 | Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and the last member of the British royal family to bear the title ''Empress of India'', celebrated her 100th birthday. |
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