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Historical Event on 3/31/1867
Prarthana Samaj was established by Ranade, Bhandarkar and others at Mumbai in 1864.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/22/1901 | Queen Victoria (1819-1901) passed away at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, South England, after a brief illness. She had been throned for almost 64 years, which is the longest reign in British history. She had given her name to an age ""Victorian Britain"". |
| 1/16/1995 | Missile carrier vessel 'Vidhrut' dedicated to nation. |
| 1/18/1990 | Farooq Abdullah, J&K CM, quits. |
| 7/31/1980 | Muhammad Rafi, famous playback singer, died at the age of 40. |
| 1/27/1999 | P. Krishnamurthy, former Indian wicketkeeper, died in Hyderabad following a cardiac arrest. |
| 4/2/1902 | Gulam Ali Khan Ustad Bade was born. |
| 7/27/1887 | Sardar Davar Tehmuras Kavasji, social worker and lawyer, was born. |
| 5/25/1606 | Guru Arjun Dev, spiritual leader of Sikhs and Hindus, was massacred at the instruction of Emperor Jahangir. |
| 2/14/1929 | Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. |
| 2/19/1992 | Shridhar Narayan Bendre, famous painter, passed away. |
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