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| 1950 |
| | | Le Corbusier begins a 15-year project designing Chandigarh as a new joint capital for Punjab and Hariyana | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Albanian missionary Mother Teresa opens the Nirmal Hriday, or Kalighat Home for Dying Destitutes, in Calcutta | |
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| 1953 |
| | | New Zealander Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stand together on the top of Everest | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Indian director Satyajit Ray makes his first film, Pather Panchali | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Ayub Khan, commander-in-chief of the Pakistani army, replaces Iskander Mirza as president in a bloodless coup | |
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| 1959 |
| | | The Dalai Lama escapes from Tibet to India after the Chinese suppression of an armed uprising costing thousands of lives | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Solomon Bandaranaike is assassinated by a Buddhist monk after only three years as prime minister of Sri Lanka | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Aung San's widow, Ma Khin Kyi, moves with her children to Delhi, as Burma's ambassador to India | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of the assassinated Solomon Bandaranaike, begins the first of three long spells as prime minister of Sri Lanka | |
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| 1962 |
| | | China prevails in a five-week war with India over disputed boundaries | |
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