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Historical Event on 10/5/1864
Cyclone destroyed most of Calcutta city in which approximately 50,000 people died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/13/1917 | Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born. |
| 9/15/1947 | Gandhi deplores the idea of population transfer. |
| 10/18/1993 | Mandakini Athvale, first child actor of Indian film industry, died. |
| 10/18/1993 | Malik Kafur, Alauddin Khilji's Commander, won the impregnable fort of Devgiri. The fort was entered by the enemy. Raja Ramdeva was taken prisoner and sent to Delhi where Alauddin recieved him untill his death in 1312. |
| 10/3/1977 | Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in New Delhi. |
| 2/27/1956 | G. V. Mavlankar, first speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away. |
| 2/8/1907 | Madhavravji Golwalkar, sarsanghchalak of 'Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh' (RSS), was born. |
| 12/1/1994 | Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. |
| 6/14/1929 | Jatindra Nath Das was arrested in Calcutta. |
| 8/5/1604 | John Eliot, ""Apostle to Indians,"" Bible translator, baptized. |
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