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Historical Event on 4/10/1997

Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1985Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum.
7/30/1992The Supreme Court declares that capitation fee in educational institutions is unlawful.
11/11/1921Gandhi urges Hindus to remove statue of ex-Viceroy Lord Lawrence.
9/24/1932Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"".
5/15/2000Ghulam Hassan Bhat, Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Power, dies in a powerful IED explosion near Mandipore in Anantnag.
8/9/1965Pakistan chose to persist while the Indian Army Corps on the ceasefire line got down to neutralizing the Gibraltar Force. As a first step, main infiltration routes were blocked and Pakistan was forced out of the Haji Fir bulge (known to them as Bedori).
10/3/1890Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born.
7/6/1927Vyankatesh Dingambar Madgulkar, great Marathi story writer and novelist, was born.
12/23/2000The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government's proposal to rename Calcutta as ''Kolkata''.
3/18/1896Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur.