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Historical Event on 5/10/1857

India's real mutiny begins with the revolt of Sepoys of Meerut near Delhi the next day.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/4/1997Lok Sabha was dissolved with immediate effect and new House was to be constituted by March 15 next.
8/10/1942Manju Bala Patil was shot on the road at Mumbai by the British Police.
3/15/1920Ranganandhan Francis, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born.
3/15/1920Akbar captured Ahmednagar.
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.
8/28/1998India and Pakistan clash at the Security Council after New Delhi denounced the running of terrorist training camps in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan.
10/21/1943Azad Hind Government was established in Singapore and Netaji Subhashchandra Bose was elected as its national leader.
12/17/1987Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims.
1/26/1950India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation.
1/15/1965Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras.