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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
10/12/1911Vijay Madhavji Merchant Thackersey, cricketer (all-time great Indian batsman), was born in Bombay.
6/9/1964Lal Bahadur Shastri became the second Prime Minister of India when the country was shocked of Jawaharlal Nehru's death and Indo-China war. Shastri gave the quotation ""Jai Jawan Jai Kisan"" which motivated the war-affected Indians to boost their morale. He remained in this office till he died on January 11, 1966 at Taskent. In his cabinet, Indira Gandhi served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
10/28/1996Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram.
8/6/1993Medha Patkar suspends anti-Narmada stir and drops her ''jal samarpan'' threat.
6/18/2000K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine.
9/4/1999Umesh Chandra, Assistant Inspector General of Police, shot dead by the PWG in Hyderabad.
5/14/1995Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people.
4/7/1997NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi.
4/29/1936Zubin Mehta, famous music conductor (NY Philharmonic), was born in Bombay, India.
6/11/1999India provided incontrovertible tape evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the Kargil sector. The Indian army killed 23 intruders in the Batalik and Dras sectors but lost 15 of its men.