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Historical Event on 5/10/1910

Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1987Establishment of 'Maharashtra Journalist Fund' Trust.
11/15/1621Jahangir captured Kakda Fort.
2/24/1899Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born.
9/21/1933Annie Besant, great social worker and founder of Home Rule Movement, passed away.
12/7/1856First Hindu widow married officially.
2/26/1966Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet.
2/26/1966Firuz Shah captured the throne of Delhi and Sultan Jalal'ud-din Khalji called himself.
11/9/1909The Times reports failure of Gandhi Government negotiations on Transvaal laws.
6/14/1996CBI grills PV Prabhakar Rao, son of former PM, for his involvement in the Rs. 133 crore NFL urea import scandal.
2/10/1979Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh.