Year 1526
Babur won the first Panipat battle and entered in North India's capital Agra.
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10 May: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 10 May.
Observances & Special Days
Constitution Day (Micronesia)
Children's Day (Maldives)
Mother's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico)
Water Conservation Day: Maharashtra, India
Year 1824
The National Gallery in London opened to the public.
Year 1857
Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.
Year 1899
Execution of Mahadev Vinayak Ranade for murdering Dravidian brothers in Rand murder case.
Year 1907
Swatantryaveer Savarkar celebrates the golden jubilee of the 1857 freedom struggle in London.
Year 1940
World War II – Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
Year 1940
World War II – Hitler invades Holland, Belgium, and France.
Year 1981
The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay)
Year 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 animals have similar touch sense"
Year 1937
Unconditional release of Swatantryaveer Savarkar from Ratnagiri.
Year 1957
Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected President of India for a second term.
Year 1962
Marvel Comics published the first issue of The Incredible Hulk magazine.
Year 1979
Micronesia became a republic.
Year 1982
Karnataka Kranti Ranga led by Devaraj Urs comes into being.
Year 1985
59 were killed and 150 wounded in Sikh attacks.
Year 1985
P. N. Bhagawati appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Year 1993
Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach Everest for the second time.
Year 1994
Nelson Mandela was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa.
Year 2005
India and Pakistan agreed to start the Lahore-Amritsar bus service.
Year 2006
ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair and NASA Administrator Michael Griffin signed an agreement to put two US scientific instruments on India’s Chandrayaan 1 to be sent to the moon.
Born 1265
Emperor Fushimi, the 92nd emperor of Japan.
Born 1855
Sri Yukteswar Giri, an Indian monk and yogi.
Born 1671
Alivardi Khan, the Nawab of Bengal.
Born 1905
Pankaj Mullick, a Bengali Indian music composer, playback singer, and actor.
Born 1909
B. S. Kesavan, the first National Librarian of independent India.
Born 1917
Ramanand Maru Amin, the great novelist, was born in Baloor, Mangalore.
Born 1918
Rameshwarnath Kao, Founder President of the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
Born 1927
Kunjunni Mash, an Indian poet of Malayalam literature.
Born 1927
Nayantara Sahgal, an Indian writer.
Born 1932
Jagdish Khebudkar, an Indian Marathi litterateur and lyricist of Marathi cinema.
Born 1937
Manik Godghate, popularly known by his pen name Grace, a Marathi prose writer and poet.
Born 1951
V. K. Singh, an Indian politician and a former four-star General in the Indian Army.
Born 1954
Prakash Ambedkar, an Indian politician, social activist, writer, and lawyer.
Born 1979
Indy Khabra, Soccer(Football) player, was born.
Born 1971
Monisha Kaltenborn, Indian-Swiss lawyer and businesswoman
Died 1774
Louis XV, King of France.
Died 1899
Execution of Mahadev Vinayak Ranade for murdering Dravidian brothers in Rand murder case.
Died 1910
Robert Koch, Nobel laureate, died of a heart attack.
Died 1936
Dr Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, a great freedom fighter, politician, journalist and Muslim leader, passed away.
Died 1977
Jahangir Khan, a famous musician, passed away.
Died 1992
Dr D.S.Tyagi, Chairman of the Agricultural Costs and Prices Commission, was shot dead by suspected Sikh terrorists in Delhi.
Died 1992
K. G. Ramanathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1920)
Died 1998
Yadunath Thatte, a Marathi journalist, editor, biographer, social worker, and socialist leader from Maharashtra, India.
Died 2001
Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, 16th Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
Died 2002
Kaifi Azmi, an Indian Urdu poet.