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Historical Event on 5/10/1979

Indy Khabra, Soccer(Football) player, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/17/1906Swami Ramtirtha, great social reformer and poet, died at the age of 33.
10/31/1999Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award.
4/22/1930Civil Disobedience at Dandi, 6th April 1930 and Civil Disobedience at Bombay, 7th April 1930, both documentary films produced by Krishna Film Co., Bombay, were prohibited by Censor Board on April 22, on the grounds that they were calculated to foster resistance to Government and to promote a breach of Law and Order.
8/3/1967Rasiklal Das, great revolutionary, died.
9/5/1888Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India's first vice-president and second president, was born at Tiruttani near Madras.
2/5/1922Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc.
7/1/1947British Parliament passes the India Independence Act and fixes August 15 for the transfer of power.
9/17/1948The Nizam of Hyderabad, in a broadcast, announced ceasefire to his troops and accession into Indian Union, which was settled earlier to the announcement.
7/18/1990Following the end of six months Governor's rule, President's rule imposed in J&K.
8/15/1947Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.