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Historical Event on 6/10/1987

Jeevan, famous Hindi film actor, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/6/199712 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi.
5/20/1992Jayalalitha sacks R. M. Veerappan from her cabinet in Tamil Nadu.
10/22/1796Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping from the terrace.
1/27/1926Arunkumar Vaidya, former General of Indian Army, was born.
12/24/1998A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces increased cash awards for Asian Games medallists.
12/27/1929Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag at the All India National Congress session held in Lahore. They resolved for ""Purna Swaraj"" (complete independence) on the instance of Gandhiji, the Viceroy of India that time was Lord Irwin.
6/25/2000India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur.
3/22/1907Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament.
12/4/1940Khurshid Novrojee, freedom fighter, was arrested for not giving prior intimation to go in tribal area. She had founded Gujarat, Kathiwad and Bombay Presidency ""Women Voluntary Amry"".
7/17/1997K.R. Narayanan,Vice President, wins in the Presidential election with a record margin to become the next head of state.