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Historical Event on 7/10/1949

Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980).

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1966First Indian-made computer commissioned in Jadavpur University campus.
1/15/1784Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution.
1/18/1932Shyam Nandan Kishore, great educationist, was born at Muzaffarpur.
3/29/1963Siyaramsharan Gupt, great autor of Hindi language, died.
12/4/1989Hardeo Joshi replaces Shiv Charan Mathur as CM of Rajasthan.
4/15/1948Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh was created by the merger of some 30 small ruling states.
10/15/2000Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-getter in one-day internationals (9379 runs) during his innings of 69 in the final of the ICC cricket tournament against New Zealand
9/17/1999Narayan Desai, Ajoy Kumar Basu and Saraswathi Gora are named for Jamnalal Bajaj awards.
5/23/1993PM arrives in Tashkent.
6/17/1862Lord Charles Jhon Canning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), died.