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Historical Event on 5/10/1910
Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/26/1909 | Dr.Moti Chandra, great historian, was born. |
10/11/1999 | Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely. |
1/1/1980 | This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"". |
12/13/2000 | All 12 battalions of the Manipur Rifles Personnel strike from work. |
1/18/1938 | The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail. |
8/28/1896 | Firak Gorakhpuri, Urdu poet and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born. |
9/27/1958 | Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais. |
6/23/1930 | The Simon Commission recommends a federal India and the separation of Burma at London. |
1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
7/31/1933 | Gandhiji was arrested from Sabarmati Ashram and imprisoned without trial. |
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