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Events for May 10

10-May-1526	Babur won the first Panipat battle and entered in North India's capital Agra.
10-May-1857	India's real mutiny begins with the revolt of Sepoys of Meerut near Delhi the next day.
10-May-1901	Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian scientist, in the hall of the Royal Society, London, which was packed with eminent scientists on May 10, 1901 proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"
10-May-1905	Pankaj Malik, music director, was born.
10-May-1909	Bellari Shammanna Keshvan, internationally famous librarian, was born.
10-May-1910	Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack.
10-May-1917	Ramanand Maru Amin, great novelist, was born in Baloor, Mangalore.
10-May-1927	Nayantara Sahgal, famous writer and social reformer, was born.
10-May-1936	Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, great freedom fighter, politician, journalist and muslim leader, passed away.
10-May-1957	Dr. Rajendra Prasad elected President of India for a second term.
10-May-1977	Jahangir Khan, famous musician, passed away.
10-May-1979	Indy Khabra, Soccer(Football) player, was born.
10-May-1981	The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay)
10-May-1982	Karnataka Kranti Ranga led by Devaraj Urs comes into being.
10-May-1985	59 were killed and 150 wounded in Sikh attacks.
10-May-1985	P. N. Bhagawati appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
10-May-1992	Dr. D.S.Tyagi, Chairman of the Agricultural Costs and Prices Commission, was shot dead by suspected Sikh terrorists in Delhi.
10-May-1993	Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time.
10-May-1996	Congress Chief Ministers of Assam, Haryana & Pondicherry resign.
10-May-1996	PM P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Council of Ministers resign.
10-May-1996	Union Cabinet recommends to President the dissolution of the 10th Lok Sabha.
10-May-1999	Tamil Nadu Government withdraws the controversial Prevention of Terrorist Activities (POTA) Bill.