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Historical Event on 4/7/1987

In a case filed by Saira Banu of Kerela, Supreme Court held that all wives, including Muslim women, whose husbands have either married again or taken a mistress are entitled to maintenance.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/23/1992The dissident ministers of Bangarappa government in Karnataka resign
11/18/1988Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit.
12/13/1978Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.
3/1/1998Bharat Ratna is awarded to Dr. A.J.P. Abdul Kalam, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, and Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi, Carnatic musician. The award is also conferred posthumously on film director Satyajit Ray, freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali and former Prime Minister Gulzari Lal Nanda.
11/21/199227 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam.
1/1/1986Fourth Pay Commission implemented.
7/16/1909Aruna Asaf Ali, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Kalka in Haryana.
8/15/1997The Government bans doctors from determining the sex of the foetus.
7/13/1947An Indian Independence Bill was moved in the British Parliament on 4th July 1947 which became an 'Act' on 13th July 1947. Two Boundary Commissions under Sir Cyril Radcliff were appointed to demarcate the boundaries of Punjab and Bengal.
10/9/1945British troops occupy Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.