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Historical Event on 7/10/1992

SROSS-C placed in orbit. Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2A), first indigenously-built satellite of second-generation INSAT series launched from Kourore. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/23/1983Supreme Court upholds execution of criminals through hanging by rope.
12/12/1996India and Bangladesh arrive at a settlement to share Ganga water.
7/26/1891Rajendralal Mitra (Raja), famous Bengali ancient researcher, passed away.
8/22/1818Warren Hastings, first Governor General of India (1773-84), died at the age of 85.
4/2/1948Communist leader S.A. Dange arrested in Bombay.
10/26/1937Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, famous music director, was born.
9/28/1940Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as ""The Chhattisgarh Gandhi"".
2/19/1993German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President.
7/22/1956Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.
2/16/1968Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon along with their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.