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Historical Event on 5/10/1993

Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/7/1893Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, passed away at the age of 37.
4/13/1796The first elephant was brought to America from Bengal, India.
2/7/1995Cong-I Disciplinary Action Committee expels Arjun Singh from the primary membership for 6 years for anti-party activities.
8/2/1987Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship.
9/18/2000President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
2/2/1996Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair.
3/22/1902Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph.
5/20/1932Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful journalist and revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away. He was amongst the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started a newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democrat"", ""Independent Bengali"", etc.
4/14/1941Julie Christie, actress (Dr Zhivago), was born in Assam, India.
5/13/1857Sir Ronald Ross, bacteriologist, member of Indian Medical service, Nobel awardee and editor of 'Science Progress', was born at Almora, UP.