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Historical Event on 7/2/1997
Screening for Hepatitis C made mandatory all over India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/3/1880 | Sakuntal Sangeet held in Anandodbhav Auditorium in Pune. Annasaheb Kirloskar presented the first musical play in Marathi. |
| 10/12/1946 | Ashok Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78), was born in Bombay. |
| 3/11/1997 | Sadhana Mukherjee, a sex-worker from Calcutta, represents India at the first international conference on prostitution beginning in Los Angeles. |
| 8/3/1998 | 35 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed. |
| 8/2/1880 | Bellary Raghava, famous actor, lawyer, social worker and dramatist, was born. |
| 9/19/1950 | U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York. |
| 6/17/1993 | K. D. Dharmadhikari (Nana), veteran freedom fighter, died. |
| 1/25/1999 | Dr. R. Chidambaram, nuclear scientist, among the 14 distinguished personalities chosen for Padma Vibhushan. Sachin Tendulkar and Ruskin Bond get Padma Shri. |
| 5/22/1963 | Rohini, Glider, became the first to successfully fly at Kanpur. |
| 4/26/1929 | British fliers make a record nonstop 4,130-mile trip from London to India. |
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