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Historical Event on 10/5/1997

Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to become an astronaut. (year 1997 or Oct. 5, 1998)

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/1961Delhi upgraded as an A-class city on the basis of provisional Census figures of 1961.
9/29/19881988 Nobel Peace Prize for U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces.
8/9/1998India moves the World Trade Organisation against the European Union reimposing anti-dumping duties on unbleached cotton gray fabric imports.
1/17/1997Government rules out granting dual citizenship to NRIs.
5/30/1950Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
12/14/1999India lost to Australia by 285 runs in Adelaide in the first cricket Test.
4/11/1999A.K.A. Abdul Samad (72), general secretary of IUML and State unit president, died in Chennai.
10/28/1999The Delhi High Court stays TRAI's plan to introduce free incoming calls on mobile phones from November 1.
9/21/1999Mr. A. C. Muthiah was elected president and Kapil Dev the senior coach at the Board of Control of Cricket in India AGM in Jaipur.
5/18/1988The ten-day Golden Temple siege at Amritsar ends with the surrender of 46 militant Sikhs.