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Historical Event on 10/5/1957

Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/18/1993Jayalalitha goes on fast on Cauvery issue.
9/16/1955Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81.
5/14/1953Y. N. Sukthankar was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1957.
7/25/1929Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born.
12/6/2000Bishop Vinod Peter, National Christian Council of India president and church of North India moderator, and Rajasthan CNI Bishop Gerald Andrews die in a car accident near Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
5/24/1990K. S. Hegde, former President of Parliament, passed away.
9/29/1942The British police shot Matangini Hazra, a 72-year old woman of Tamluk town in Midnapur district, when she was leading the flag at Tamluk in August movement procession.
6/3/1977K. Brahmananda Reddi elected President of the Indian National Congress.
6/4/1902Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928), was born.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.