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Historical Event on 5/10/1917

Ramanand Maru Amin, great novelist, was born in Baloor, Mangalore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1891Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created.
4/2/1953Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist and writer, passed away.
11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
1/31/1997INS Vikrant, Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier, de-commissioned.
11/25/1998Prof. K. S. Hegde (75), former Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University and educationist, dies in New Delhi. He was selected by the Government of India for overseas scholarship for post graduate studies and higher technical training abroad during the pre-independence era.
1/27/1999P. Krishnamurthy, former Indian wicketkeeper, died in Hyderabad following a cardiac arrest.
12/13/2000All 12 battalions of the Manipur Rifles Personnel strike from work.
4/8/1894Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, famous novelist and writer of national song 'Vande Mataram', died at the age of 55. Some of his writings are 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala'.
7/1/1999Two leaders of Hindu Makkal Katchi (HMK) are detained under National Security Act (NSA).
10/12/1967National Conference, the Working Committee of Jammu and Kashmir, unanimously passed the proposal to a permanent merger of the state with India.