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Historical Event on 5/10/1977

Jahangir Khan, famous musician, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/17/1998Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.
6/3/1916Smt. Nathibai Damodar Thakarsey Women's University was established.
6/3/1916Sikh Guru Har Govindji, the sixth sikh guru, was born. He fashioned a military role for the Sikhs.
11/27/1993Splendid bowling by Anil Kumble (6 for 12) helps India to beat West Indies by 102 runs in the Hero Cup finals in Calcutta.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
8/19/1992K.R.Narayanan elected the ninth Vice President of India.
6/13/1879Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born.
12/23/1959Edward Fredrick Lindlewood Halifax ""Irwin Lord"", English viscount and Governor General of India (1925-1931), died at the age of 78.
1/26/1992BJP President Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi hoists the national flag at the heavily-guarded Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
9/2/1947Gandhiji is mobbed in Calcutta house; gives up idea of Noakhali visit. Peace efforts intensified.