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Historical Event on 5/10/1985

P. N. Bhagawati appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/10/1946Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals.
4/10/1901Amiya Chakravarty, educationist, was born at Serampore in West Bengal.
2/7/198161 die in circus fire in Bangalore.
7/17/1947Ramdas Coastal Steamer sank off Bombay claiming 550 lives.
8/26/1914Bengali revolutionaries looted 46,000 bullet ammunition and pistols from Calcutta Port for their revolutionary activities.
8/17/1944Indian Viceroy Viscount Wavell rejects Gandhi's request to discuss war support in return for Indian independence.
8/17/1944Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.
6/4/1972First Environment Day.
6/30/1914Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest during campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa.
4/26/1946V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.