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Historical Event on 10/5/1989

Dalai Lama was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize (1989).

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/22/1993Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike.
8/10/1994President's rule in J&K extended for another 6 months beginning 3rd Sept.
12/10/1996Supreme Court bans employment of child labour in hazardous industries.
2/24/1961Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
7/31/1933Gandhiji was arrested from Sabarmati Ashram and imprisoned without trial.
3/25/193150 killed in riots in India; Gandhi assaulted.
4/29/1998The Reserve Bank reduces the bank rate by one point from 10 per cent in its monetary and credit policy for the first half of 1998- 99.
9/15/1860M. Visveswarayya, maker of modern Karnataka, was born. He was a notable engineer too.
3/1/1939Satish Kumar Sareen was born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan). He became the Air Chief Marshal.
2/17/1931Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".