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Historical Event on 1/15/1934
Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/3/1914 | Sam Hormuj Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, India's first Field Marshal, was born. He was better known as ""Sam Manekshaw"". |
| 4/15/1938 | Madhurima. Ch, educationist and artist, was born in Begusarai, Bihar . |
| 3/20/1921 | Dr. P. C. Alexander, Governor of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 7/9/1996 | A Delhi court summoned former Prime Minister Narsimha Rao to face trial as an accused in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case in which godman Chandraswami was already facing trial. |
| 6/16/1992 | P. D. Dhhavle, former editor of daily newspaper `Maharashtra', passed away. |
| 12/15/1991 | Satyajit Ray, film maestro, awarded Special Oscar for his lifetime achievement. |
| 10/2/1999 | Home Minister L. K. Advani said that the BJP was ready to provide letters of support. |
| 12/14/1990 | President's Rule imposed on Goa. Caretaker CM Dr. Barbosa disqualified from the membership of Assembly for defection from Congress (I) nine months ago. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 1/12/1906 | Pandit Mahadeo Shastri Joshi, dictionary creator, was born. |
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