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Historical Event on 10/5/1890
Kishorlal Ghanshyamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/29/1980 | India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics. |
| 7/18/1997 | Fifth Pay Commission report approved by Central Govt. |
| 7/18/1997 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 3/23/1911 | Indranath Bandopadhyay, Bengali comedy writer and journalist, passed away. |
| 1/16/1924 | In a tragic ship wreck, Kumaran Asan, famous Malayalam poet & eminent social worker, died. |
| 6/16/1934 | M. Muthuraman, noted Hindi writer and professor, was born at Dindigul in Madurai (Tamil Nadu). |
| 1/8/1993 | FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500. |
| 1/21/1983 | R. D. Katari, the first Indian Admiral of Indian Army, passed away. |
| 4/29/1997 | R. N. Malhotra, 71, former RBI Governor, died. |
| 2/6/1827 | Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, passed away at the age of 65 years. |
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