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Historical Event on 4/10/1997

Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/16/1922M.V. Desai, social reformer and journalist, was born.
4/19/1996AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
9/27/1703More than 8,000 people died in a cyclone in England.
1/25/1994Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55.
9/6/1903Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon tea in retaliation for British import policies in Moscow.
5/22/1953Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World).
11/28/1945Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs India at Calcutta.
3/8/1833Vishwanath Narayan Mandalik, famous journalist, writer and social reformer, was born.
6/18/1993The 14th national council of the BJP at Bangalore swears by Hindutva.
2/26/196634 national leaders charge Indira Gandhi's rule is 'constitutional dictatorship'.