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Historical Event on 5/10/1979
Indy Khabra, Soccer(Football) player, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1979 | Sher Shah defeats Humayun near Buxar at Chausa and becomes emperor of Delhi. |
| 5/11/1919 | Troops under General Barrett inflicted a sharp reverse today on the invading Afghans at Bagh Springs. The whole of the frontier area was up in arms with tribesmen threatening Landi Khotal and martial law being proclaimed in Peshawar. It was expected however that General Barrett, well equipped with guns and airplanes, would soon control the situation. Reports had been reaching London for some time about the possibility of an Afghan incursion following the murder of the pro-British Emir Habibullah. His third son, Amanullah Khan, who took over the throne, was known to be hostile toward the government of India. |
| 6/3/1999 | Flight Lieutenant K. Nachiketa is handed over by the International Committee of the Red Cross to the Indian High Commissioner inside the High Commission premises. |
| 3/15/1919 | Osmania University was established at Hyderabad. |
| 8/18/1923 | Sadashiv ""Sadu"" Ganpatrao Shinde, cricketer (Indian leg-spinner during the late 1940's and early 1950's), was born in Bombay. |
| 5/17/1991 | Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away. |
| 5/9/1995 | Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast. |
| 1/4/1972 | Pakistan proposed to talk after the war. |
| 8/25/1959 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister, declares in New Delhi that India will defend Bhutan and Sikkim if attacked by China. |
| 11/19/1962 | Nehru asks more US aid as China drives into India in New Delhi. |
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