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Historical Event on 5/10/1996

Congress Chief Ministers of Assam, Haryana & Pondicherry resign.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/19/1967Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light.
4/18/1612Khurram prince was married to Arjumand Banu Begum.
6/17/1991Prabhakar Machve, famous litterateur, passed away.
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
1/7/1997Jaspal Rana bags six gold medals in the men's standard pistol and air pistol and set two more records on the penultimate day of the National shooting.
3/3/1943Gandhi breaks his hunger strike after 21 days.
6/9/1949Kiran Bedi, the first woman Indian Police Service Officer, was born in Amritsar, Punjab.
3/15/1997Lok Sabha passes Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 1997.
4/3/1999Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation.
9/2/1984Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar.