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Historical Event on 10/13/1877
Bhulabhai Desai, politician, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/3/1898 | Udayshankar Bhatt, modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist, was born. |
| 4/13/1993 | Lalitadevi Shastri passed away. |
| 8/3/1984 | Bomb attack at Madras airport claims 32 lives. |
| 12/19/1988 | Umashankar Joshi, Gyanpeeth awardee and Gujrathi poet, died. |
| 1/8/1992 | Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent. |
| 7/18/1980 | Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (3 Tests for India 1932-34, 108 runs), died. |
| 4/17/1990 | Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people. |
| 7/19/1763 | Mir Kasim was defeated in 'Katwa' battle by Britishers. |
| 4/9/1965 | After Indo-Pak conflict of 1965, the Raksha Medal, Samar Seva Star and some others were introduced. |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
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