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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 |
12/5/1935 | Bipinchandra Joshi, chief of Indian Army general, was born. |
7/23/1912 | Kilachand Ambalal, great industrialist, was born. |
9/14/1803 | Lord Lake was captured Delhi. |
8/2/1935 | The British pass Govt. of India Act, separating Burma, Aden from India. |
12/17/1990 | N. Janardhan Reddy sworn in as CM of Andhra Pradesh. |
7/17/1976 | Mudliyar A. Ramaswami, Padmabhushan awardee, politician and industrialist, passed away. |
6/23/1942 | Jabbar Patel, film producer, was born. |
3/9/1990 | Lalu Prasad Yadav to form JD Ministry in Bihar. |
10/18/1952 | Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wickets to win first Indo-Pak clash. |
1/8/1884 | Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society. |
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