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Historical Event on 5/10/1981
The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/23/1809 | Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Khinda village in the north of Sambalpur at Orissa. |
| 10/4/1907 | Riots in Calcutta. |
| 3/12/1942 | British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal. |
| 3/12/1942 | Sultan Ghiyasu'd-din Tughluq Shah, emperor of Delhi, passed away. |
| 4/7/1997 | Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan finalise preparations for a new trade bloc called 'Growth Quadrangle'. |
| 1/2/1967 | University established at Berhampur in Orrisa State. |
| 4/3/1999 | India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana. |
| 9/29/1988 | 1988 Nobel Peace Prize for U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces. |
| 6/9/1923 | Idris Hassan Latif, Air Chief Marshal, was born at Hyderabad, Deccan. |
| 5/26/2000 | In a significant development, the Government decides to allow disinvestment up to 60 per cent equity of Air India. |
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