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Historical Event on 8/10/1986

Gen. A.S. Vaidya, who was Chief of Army Staff, at the time of 'Operation Blue Star', was shot dead at Pune.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/8/1997India decides to import currency notes for the first time.
8/19/1992K.R.Narayanan elected the ninth Vice President of India.
8/15/2000Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says in his Independence Day address, ""Borders cannot be redrawn either in the name of religion or on the strength of the sword"".
8/29/1997B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
7/17/1935Dr. Ram Babu Gupta, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1986-89, was born at Delhi.
12/28/1952Arun Jaitley, son of Maharaj Kishan Jaitley, was born in New Delhi.
12/21/1788Sindhia arrested Gulam Qadir and killed him.
11/15/1982S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died.
3/21/1996PSLV-D3 launched successfully.
7/20/1990GOI notifies restrictions on liberal import policy announced earlier. The restrictions will cut the import bill by about Rs. 1000 crore.