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Historical Event on 10/5/1997
Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1920 | Harbhajan Singh, educationist and writer, was born at Lumding. |
| 5/11/1999 | Centre removes the West Bengal Governor A. R. Kidwai. The Arunachal Pradesh Governor Mata Prasad had also been asked to step down. |
| 4/10/1996 | The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt. |
| 1/25/1989 | Congress-I ministry headed by S. C. Jamir assumes office in Nagaland. |
| 4/16/2000 | India wins the second leg of the pre-olympic hockey tournament at Perth. |
| 5/5/1944 | Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue. |
| 12/20/1931 | Leela Nag (Leela Roy), freedom fighter and editor of Jayshri, was arrested in Bengal for her association with ""Depali Sangh"" who supported Chatgang Ammunition Plot against the Bengal Government. |
| 7/8/1914 | Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal, was born. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 10/2/1971 | Gandhi Sadan was handed over to the nation. |
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