5 JAN HISTORY EVENTS

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

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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

1934 : Birth of Murli Manohar Joshi, BJP leader and union minister http://www.bjp.org/leadership/bjp-presidents/dr-murali-manohar-joshi http://www.elections.in/political-leaders/murli-manohar-joshi.html

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-Lama http://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 minister http://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 month http://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

2014: India successfully launches its first rocket using domestically produced booster technology after several previous missions had failed http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2014/01/india-launches-satellite-from-space-centre-201415143713101654.html http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/gslvd5-with-indigenous-cryogenic-engine-launched-successfully/article5541607.ece?homepage=true

2014: Death of K. P. Udayabhanu, Indian singer, born on June 6, 1936 http://netindian.in/news/2014/01/05/00027421/veteran-malayalam-playback-singer-k-p-udayabhanu-passes-away http://www.mtv.com/artists/k-p-udayabhanu/biography/

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