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Historical Event on 12/5/1931
Jayant G. Nadkarni, former Admiral of Indian Navy, was born.

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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.
11/18/1727	Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India.
7/4/1933	Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to one year imprisonment.
4/8/1923	Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week.
10/11/1991	BJP government in U.P. acquires the disputed Ayodhya land.
1/12/1990	Upper age limit for Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years.
6/26/1997	India declares its chemical weapon stockpiles and storage facilities as part of its obligations as signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
7/4/1985	Police inquiry said bombs caused Air India jet disaster in New Delhi.
7/1/1997	Over 23,000 blowdowns completed in 1.2 m tunnel.
4/3/1988	Rajiv Gandhi seals the border between Punjab and Pakistan.

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Historical Event on 12/5/1931 Jayant G. Nadkarni, former Admiral of Indian Navy, was born.

Historical Event on 12/5/1931
Jayant G. Nadkarni, former Admiral of Indian Navy, was born.