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Historical Event on 10/12/1997

India Seniors lift Challenger Trophy cricket title.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/4/1987Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan.
1/10/1979Anand Gopal Shauri, litterateur and journalist, passed away.
9/23/1903Yusuf Meherali, freedom fighter and socialist, was born.
4/20/1965First Indian team led by M. S. Kohli ascends the Everest.
10/3/1903Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist, was born.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
11/22/1997Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad.
3/17/1863Sayajirao Gaekwad of Baroda was born.
4/11/1999A.K.A. Abdul Samad (72), general secretary of IUML and State unit president, died in Chennai.
11/5/1996Narashima Rao, former PM, refused bail in St. Kitts forgery case.