What Happened Today In History?
Find out what happened on 10th May in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred on 10th May.
Famous Birthdays in History on this day:
- Hrishitaa Bhatt (born 10 May 1981), also spelled as Hrishita Bhat, is a Bollywood actress and model. She debuted in the film Asoka (2001) opposite Shahrukh Khan, but it was Haasil (2003), that brought major turn into her career.
- Namitha is an Indian actress, who has appeared in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam films. She was crowned Miss Surat during the year 1998. She was a contestant in the 2001 Miss India pageant.
- Nayantara Sahgal (born 10 May 1927) is an Indian writer in English. Her fiction deals with India’s elite responding to the crises engendered by political change; she was one of the first female Indo-Anglian writers to receive wide recognition.
Death anniversaries on 10th May:
- Kaifi Azmi (May 10, 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He is considered to be one of the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jon Eliya and many others he participated in many memorable mushairas of 20th century.
- Mohan Makijany (24 April 1938 – 10 May 2010), popularly known as Mac Mohan, was a well-known Indian character actor in Hindi language films. Although, Mac Mohan acted in over 190 films and remained popular as a villain through the 1970s and 1980s with films like Don, Karz, Satte Pe Satta, Zanjeer, Rafoo Chakkar, Shaan and Khoon Pasina, he is mostly remembered for his role of Sambha.
Notable Events:
- 1857: The First War of Independence, began “Among the many lessons the Indian mutiny conveys to the historian, none is of greater importance than the warning that it is possible to have a Revolution in which Brahmins and Sudras, Hindus and Mahomedans, could be united against us.
- 1526 Babur won the first Panipat battle and entered in North India’s capital Agra.
- 1857 India’s real mutiny begins with the revolt of Sepoys of Meerut near Delhi the next day.
- 1901 Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian scientist, in the hall of the Royal Society, London, which was packed with eminent scientists today on May 10, 1901 proved that “plants and animal have similar touch sense”.
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