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Historical Event on 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.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/25/1933 | Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born. |
5/18/1972 | Kokan Krishi (Agriculture) University was established. |
8/2/1959 | Little Theatre was established. |
8/12/1998 | Uttarancha State plan meets with difficulty owing to differences on inclusion of Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar district. |
4/11/1931 | Mahendranath Yeshwant Gupte, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1984-85, was born at Mumbai. |
5/8/1933 | Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables. |
5/8/1933 | Shahjahan, great mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore. |
12/3/1971 | Third Pakistani aggression begins with air attacks on airports in the western sector; emergency declared. |
9/1/1981 | Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 03/Sept/1984. |
1/14/1948 | First issue of Marathi daily newspaper 'Loksatta' was published. |
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