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Historical Event on 8/10/1992

P. P. Thorat, retired Lt and General, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/20/1999The Delhi HC dismisses a plea from Rajendra Yadav challenging his retirement from the Prachar Bharati Board.
11/20/1967First Indian made Sounding Rocket 'Rohini RH75' launched into space from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station.
3/1/1924Naresh Mehta was born.
11/8/1999The Government announces waiver of telephone bills up to Rs. 1000 in the rural areas of cyclone-hit Orissa.
9/16/1932Ronald Ross, bacteriologist and member of Indian Medical Service, died in London. He had also received a Nobel Prize.
9/8/2000Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries.
8/15/1947Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.
1/14/1851Peshwa Bajirao Raghunath, last Peshwa of Marathas, passed away at Brahmawart.
6/9/1992LDF wrests Narakal while the UDF retains the Tanur assembly seat in Kerala.
10/21/1950China invades Tibet.