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Historical Event on 5/10/1910
Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/16/1959 | Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning. |
| 11/6/2000 | Buddhadev Bhattacharya assumes office as West Bengal Chief Minister. |
| 6/19/1997 | Indian Prime Minister and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, spoke for first time on restored hotline, to reiterate their committment to comprehensive dialogue, including Kashmir. |
| 6/1/1959 | National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL) set up under CSIR with temporary offices in New Delhi. Dr. P. Nilakantan is appointed NARL's first Director. |
| 9/30/1996 | Phase I assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 4/10/1995 | Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, first non-Congress Prime Minister of India (1977-79) and Chief Minister of Bombay, passed away at the age of 99. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna. |
| 4/8/1998 | Prem Singh Lalpura, who defied the Akali Dal leadership, not taking oath as a Lok Sabha member on denial of a ministerial berth, is expelled by the party. |
| 5/26/1998 | Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation. |
| 3/30/1996 | Congress I splits in Tamil Nadu. Group led by G.K. Moopanar makes alliance with DMK. |
| 7/1/1968 | Asia's biggest nuclear research lab started in New Delhi. |
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