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Historical Event on 1/10/1995

26th International Film Festival of India opens at Brabourne Stadium, Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi was sworn is as the 6th Prime Minister of India. He succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi. He became the Prime Minister of India for a second time and first time after elections.
8/6/1991Ramakrishna Hegde disqualified as MLA.
2/19/1956Acharya Narendra Dev, the veteran freedom fighter, revolutionary, thinker and Chairman of PSP, passed away.
1/15/1973Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
10/14/1910Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
1/29/1953Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated.
8/11/1984A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud.
4/19/1976Indira Gandhi proposes a resumption of ties with Pakistan in New Delhi.
2/6/1992The Centre decides to wind up the 7-year-old Food Processing Industry ministry.
10/10/1998Justice Dr. Adarsh Sein Anand was appointed as the Chief Justice of India.