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Historical Event on 8/13/1947
Riots sweep Lahore in Punjab; mobs stone Gandhi's house.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/1/1962 | Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, died at Allahabad. |
| 11/12/1939 | Pratap Chandra Lal arrived at the training establishment at RAF Station, Risalpur. He then rose to the Air Chief Marcharl of Indian Air Force. |
| 8/28/1896 | Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, great musician and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Chembai in Kerala. |
| 4/27/1907 | Fearing uprising in Punjab, British arm volunteers. |
| 1/14/1896 | Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance Minister of India, was born. |
| 11/14/1955 | Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President. |
| 9/29/1708 | British East India Company and New East India company merged. |
| 6/29/1924 | Ezra Laderman, NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians), was born. |
| 5/14/1982 | All India Radio renamed as 'Akashwani' but it's Urdu service yet announces that it's All India Radio. |
| 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. |
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