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Historical Event on 5/10/1909
Bellari Shammanna Keshvan, internationally famous librarian, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1986 | Fourth Pay Commission implemented. |
| 12/4/1888 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born. |
| 9/25/1999 | Eighth SAF Games inaugurated in Kathmandu. |
| 4/23/1913 | Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born. |
| 8/5/1965 | Jaya Prakash Narayan was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service. |
| 6/17/1917 | Krishan Kumar Chopra, medical practitioner and social worker, was born at Lahore. |
| 12/28/1981 | Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children. |
| 1/14/1990 | India and Maldives scrap visas. |
| 1/8/1964 | Jack ""Murph the Surf"" Murphy, 27, and a companion were arrested in Miami as suspects in the theft of $410,000 rare gems from the American Museum of Natural History in October of last year. The world's largest sapphire, the Star of India, and eight of the other 22 stolen gems were returned to New York in an attorney's coat pocket, having been recovered in two water-logged suede pouches from a Miami bus terminal locker with the help of a third suspect. The three described themselves as ""beach boys."" Murphy is a sometimes an aquatic clown, but mainly they were notorious jewel thieves. Murphy was also accused of pistol-whipping actress Eva Gabor and stealing jewels worth $50,000 from her a year ago. |
| 11/2/1908 | 50 years after the start of direct rule, Edward VII talks of 'prudently extending' democracy. |
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