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Events for February 10

10-February-1691	Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta.
10-February-1803	Jagannath Sunkerseth, great social worker, education lover and one of the sculptors of modern Mumbai, was born.
10-February-1806	Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Kainakary , Kerala.
10-February-1846	British forces under Hugh Gough defeated Sikhs in the Battle of Sobrahan in India.
10-February-1859	General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny.
10-February-1897	Sannidhanam Suryanarayana Sastry, educationist and writer, was born at Chiriwada, (A.P).
10-February-1902	Hemraj, politician, was born at Dera Gopipur, (H.P.).
10-February-1910	Smt. Durga Bhagwat, veteran Marathi writer, was born.
10-February-1916	Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged.
10-February-1921	Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated Kashi Vidya Peeth.
10-February-1921	Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and nobel prize winner, passed away.
10-February-1926	Rajmata Krishna Kumari, social worker, was born at Dharangadhra.
10-February-1927	Dashrathi (Dashrathi Krishnamacharya), famous Telgu poet, was born.
10-February-1930	Shrikant Kirloskar, director of 'Kirloskar Udyog Samuh', was born.
10-February-1931	Capital of India shifted from Old Delhi to New Delhi, formal inauguration of New Delhi City took place.
10-February-1943	Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3.
10-February-1944	Japanese troops take the Ngakyedauk Pass, cutting off the 7th Indian Division at Sinzweya, Burma.
10-February-1946	Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals.
10-February-1949	Pune University' established.
10-February-1957	Pranab Pankaj Roy, cricketer (son of Pankaj, Indian batsman 1982), was born in Calcutta.
10-February-1961	P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'.
10-February-1979	Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
10-February-1982	K. R. Meher-Homji, cricket wicket keeper (one Test, one catch, no stumps), passed away.
10-February-1986	Pope John Paul II ends visit to India.
10-February-1990	Saroj Mukherjee, WB's CPI(M) secretary, died.
10-February-1992	Andaman and Nicobar Islands opened for foreign travellers.
10-February-1995	PM appoints Madhavrao Scindia as Human Resource Minister, Pranab Mukherjee as External Minister, Buta Singh as Civil Supplies, Ajit Singh as Food, and P. Chidambaram as Commerce Minister.
10-February-1999	P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in D