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Historical Event on 5/10/1927

Nayantara Sahgal, famous writer and social reformer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/1978Justice Y. Y. Chandrachud is sworn in as the Chief Justice of India.
4/21/1720Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath passed away and was succeeded by his son Peshwa Baji Rao I. He was a great soldier and General.
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
11/17/1953Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away.
11/18/1727Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India.
2/10/1916Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged.
8/11/1999Ramnath Parkar, former Indian opening batsman, died in Mumbai.
2/1/1985Muhammad Azharuddin created a world record at Kanpur by hitting a century in each of his first three test.
2/6/1827Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, passed away at the age of 65 years.
4/24/1996Indian Express launches Vizag (17th) edition.