Wednesday, 6 January 2016

5 JAN TODAY IN HISTORY DINVISHESH GHADAMODI

On 5 January in Indian and South Asian history

ON 5 JANUARY IN INDIAN AND SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on January 5, 2016
1592: Birth of Shah Jahan, ruler of the Mughal Empire (1628-1658) who died on January 22, 1666
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Jahan
1666: Birth of Gobind Singh (older date given was December 22), the tenth guru of the Sikhs (1675-1708) who died on October 21, 1708
http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Guru_Gobind_Singh
http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/gurus/nanak10.html
1893: Birth of Paramahansan Yogananda, Indian guru who died in March 1952                      http://www.crystalclarity.com/yogananda/index.php
1919: Birth of Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan Trotskyist theoretician, who died on September 22, 2012
http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/09/27/fea05.asp
http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/10963
1928: Birth of Ali Bhutto, President (1971-1973), then Prime Minister (1973-1977) of Pakistan, hanged on April 4, 1979
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Zulfikar-Ali-Bhutto
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P019
Ali Bhutto 2
1986: Birth of Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepika_Padukone
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2138653/
2000: The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorge who escaped from his Tsurphu monastery in Tibet in December 1999, arrives in India at Dharamsala where is living the XIV Dalai-Lamahttp://kagyuoffice.org/in-india/the-karmapas-great-escape-december-28-1999-january-5-2000/
http://the17thkarmapa.blogspot.fr/2000/01/tibetan-lama-flees-to-india.html
 2009: India: The president of the pro-India National Conference (NC) party is sworn in as the new chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Omar Abdullah, 38, is the disputed state’s youngest ever chief ministerhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7811173.stm
2012: The Afghan government, angry at being sidelined over peace talks, flexed its muscles by ordering the takeover of a US military prison and parading British detainees at a news conference. President Hamid Karzai ordered the transfer of the prison at Bagram to Afghan control within a monthhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8994866/Hamid-Karzai-orders-transfer-of-US-prison-at-Bagram-to-Afghan-control.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/05/afghanistan-demands-us-return-bagram







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