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Historical Event on 10/5/1864
Cyclone destroyed most of Calcutta city in which approximately 50,000 people died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/11/1999 | Leander Paes capped a brilliant year with his successive Challenger title, this time in Jaipur, beating Barry Cowan in the final. |
| 12/30/1964 | 500 people seized by Chinese spies. |
| 3/27/1942 | Gandhiji meets Sir Stafford Cripps in New Delhi; later declares Cripps proposals to be a ""post-dated cheque"". |
| 10/9/1987 | Official Languages Rules, 1976 amended. |
| 12/5/1951 | Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away. |
| 12/8/1999 | Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999. |
| 11/6/1998 | Koneru Humpy wins the World under-12 girls' chess title in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. Azharuddin becomes the highest run-getter (displacing Desmond Haynes, 8648 runs) in LOI history in the Coca Cola cup, Sharjah. |
| 1/21/1910 | Ramnath Anandilal Poddar, great industrialist, was born. |
| 3/7/1942 | Umesh Narayan Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in four Tests 1967-68), was born in Alibaug, Maharashtra. |
| 8/12/1922 | Chunilal Kalidas Madiya, famous Gujrati one-act player, play wright story writer and novelist, was born. |
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