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Historical Event on 1/10/1996

Centre sets up Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/18/1951Indian Institute of Technology was opened in Kharagpur, West Bengal.
7/29/1994Indian army kills 27 Muslem militants.
10/9/1968Olympic Games open in Mexico City.
3/2/1997Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit.
9/10/1924K.T. Gopalkrishnan, famous Hindi writer, was born at Azhicode.
12/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee questions Pakistan's decision to hand over part of occupied Kashmir to China and says the area belongs to India.
1/16/1996Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership.
4/20/1989President's rule imposed in Karnataka.
12/21/1990Former Union Finance Secretary S. Venkatramanan appointed Governor of RBI. B. Rachaiah and Dr. Sarup Singh sworn in as Governors of Kerala and Gujarat respectively.
4/14/1995India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah.