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Historical Event on 7/10/1997

Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/13/1795Ahilyabai Holkar passed away at the age of 70.
11/3/1908Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born.
3/7/1956A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India.
2/28/1918Srinivas Ramanujan, famous Indian scientist, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
3/13/1997H. D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister, presented the G. K. Reddy Memorial Award to Shekhar Gupta, Chief Editor of The Indian Express.
4/21/1998Ashok Kumar, Special Secretary, Union Home Ministry, who headed a Central team to Tamil Nadu to assess the law and order situation, was transferred to the Planning Commission.
9/18/1972India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971.
8/2/1980Ramshankar Baij, great sculptor, died.
7/30/1957Export Risk Insurance Corporation of India was established through which exporting materials were insured.
12/17/1905Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.