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Historical Event on 5/10/1981
The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1937 | Suman Kalyanpurkar, famous singer, was born. |
| 2/27/1992 | Narasimha Rao elected Congress (I) President in the party poll held after a gap of 20 years. |
| 7/19/1974 | Udham Singh's, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London. |
| 8/9/1893 | Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family. |
| 8/2/1959 | Little Theatre was established. |
| 7/26/1874 | Rajarshi Shahu Chhatrapati, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born. |
| 1/23/1975 | Omeo Kumar Das, one of the great patriots of Assam, passed away at the age of 81. He selflessly worked for the tea plantation workers and made efforts to get them better living standards. He translated Gandhiji's autobiography ""My Experiments with Truth"" in Assamese language. |
| 1/23/1999 | An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district. |
| 10/12/1997 | India Seniors lift Challenger Trophy cricket title. |
| 5/4/1957 | Rai Chaudhary Hemchandra, great historian, passed away. |
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