Quick glance of 10 April in the pages of History

April 10: Here are the major events that occurred on 10 April….

• 10 April, 1317: Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur.
• 10 April, 1760: Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75.
• 10 April, 1875: Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj at Bombay and in 1877 in Lahore.

• 10 April, 1894: Ghanshyam Das Birla was born on 10 April 1894 at Pilani village, in the Indian state then known as Rajputana, as a member of the Marwari community.
• 10 April, 1917: Gandhi arrived in Champaran, a district in the state of Bihar. Taken as the starting of Champaran Satyagrah or movement.
• 10 April, 1930: British Police raid the headquarters of the Indian National Congress, Bombay.

• 10 April, 1937: Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away.
• 10 April, 1930: India and Vietnam affirm the Panchsheel.
• Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1A) launched. First operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite procured from U.S.A.(Cape Canaveral).
• 10 April, 1982: Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1A) launched. First operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite procured from U.S.A.(Cape Canaveral).

• 10 April, 1995: Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, first non-Congress Prime Minister of India (1977-79) and Chief Minister of Bombay, passed away at the age of 99. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna.
• 10 April, 1996: The marketing of Salman Rushdie’s novel ‘The Moor’s Last Sigh’ in India was cleared by the Central govt.

• 10 April, 1997: Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.
• 10 April, 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.