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Historical Event on 10/5/1997
Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to become an astronaut. (year 1997 or Oct. 5, 1998)
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/17/1953 | Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 1/25/1948 | French India Peoples' Convention, Pondicherry, passed a resolution for complete merger of the French India with the Dominion of India. - G. V. Mavlankar was elected the first Speaker of the Indian Parliament. |
| 2/14/1959 | Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth. |
| 7/7/1763 | Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal. |
| 7/26/1956 | Godavarish Mishra, famous Oriya poet, playwright and essay writer, died. |
| 10/17/1994 | Seshan's controversial biography ''DMK'' obtains stay. |
| 12/14/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi joins the leaders of Greece, Sweden, Tanzania, Mexico and Argentina in a tele-conference as part of the UN ceremony at which they are honoured with the 'Beyond War' award. |
| 7/30/1987 | India says it will revive the 'Agni' IRBM programe. |
| 10/6/1779 | Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born. |
| 12/1/1955 | Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech condemning British colonialism. |
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