ON 5 NOVEMBER IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
To see another date, on Internet (Google…) type “On (date + month) in South Asian history”
Updated on November 5, 2018
1271: Birth of Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler, Khan of the Tartars 1295-1304) who died on May 11, 1304
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Ghazan#Biography
1556: Second battle of Panipat. A Mughal army defeats Hindu forces of General Hemu to ensure Akbar the throne of India
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mughal-victory-assures-akbars-ascension
http://www.panipatonline.in/city-guide/second-battle-of-panipat
1817: The Battle of Khadki (previously transcribed as the Battle of Kirkee) between the forces of the English East India Company and those of Bajirao II, the Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy. Khadki, on the outskirts of Pune in Maharashtra, India
http://cms.unipune.ernet.in/~sukratu/welcomekhadki.html
1864: Most of Calcutta is destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)
1870: Birth of Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter, who died on June 16, 1925
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/chitta-ranjan-das/
1905: Birth of Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet who died on September 13, 1973
http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/sajjad-zaheer
http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2915/stories/20120810291504100.htm
1917: Birth of Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana who died on August 29, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banarsi_Das_Gupta
1919: Birth of Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, who died on January 18, 1978
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Askari
1939: Birth of Lobsang Tenzin, Tibetan religious leader, 5th Samdhong Rinpoche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Tenzin
1952: Birth of Vandana Shiva, Indian scientist and environmentalist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Vandana_Shiva/Vandana_Shiva_page.html
1955: Birth of Karan Thapar, Foremost Indian Journalist, Political Analyst & Commentator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karan_Thapar
1978: Twenty months after the defeat of her party, Indira Gandhi is reelected to the parliament
1981: Death of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual figure, born on August 14, 1924
http://www.diamondway-buddhism.org/buddhist-teachers/hh-16th-karmapa/
http://kagyuoffice.org/kagyu-lineage/the-golden-rosary/16th-karmapa/
1994: The Taliban seize Kandahar. Their leader, the mullah Omar stays there to direct the country
http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1010/p1s4-wosc.html
1996: President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismiss Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, in charge since October 1993 and dissolves the National Assembly. Malik Meraj Khalid is appointed caretaker premier up to February 17, 1997
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A087
http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/leghari.order.html
1998: Death of Nagarjun, Indian poet, born on June 30, 1911
http://www.indowindow.com/delhimagazine/sanam/Nagarjun/intro.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjun
2003: Sri Lanka president, Chandrika Kumaratunga, proclaims the state of emergency
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3256649.stm
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/archive/20031109/issues-1.htm
2011: Death of Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer, composer, lyricist, music director, and filmmaker from Assam, born on September 8, 1926
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/06/bhupen-hazarika
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/5th-november-2011-indian-lyricist-and-musician-bhupen-hazarika-passed-away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXXbvV4hPkw
2013: A Bangladeshi court has convicts more than 300 soldiers at the start of a mass verdict over a 2009 military mutiny in which scores of senior officers were massacred. 152 soldiers are sentenced to die
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/05/world/asia/bangladesh-soldiers-death-sentence/index.html?hpt=ias_c1
http://www.euronews.com/2013/11/05/bangladesh-court-sentences-152-to-death-for-2009-mutiny/
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/11/bangladesh-mutiny-verdict-due-201311561736760822.html
2013/ India’s first mission to Mars completes its first stage, successfully entering an elliptical orbit around the Earth 44 minutes after take-off, the Indian Space Research Organisation announces
http://www.france24.com/en/20131105-indian-mars-rocket-successfully-enters-orbit-earth
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10426972/India-launches-first-Mars-bound-spacecraft.html
http://www.euronews.com/2013/11/05/india-launches-a-mission-to-mars/