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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.
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7/11/1964 | M C Chagla, Union Minister of Education, turns the first sod for the foundation of the 4 ft tunnel. |
8/3/1991 | About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India. |
1/21/1993 | Chander Pal at Bangalore sets record for High Jump in 2.17. |
9/24/1921 | Dr. Sakharam Gangadhar Malshe, researcher and critic, was born. |
12/12/1901 | Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore founded the first dance school called as ""Kala Bhawan"" and established the ""Barahamacharya Ashram"", the core of Vishwa Bharati University of Shantiniketan, near Bolpur. It was formally opened on December. |
10/25/1983 | Technical Cell constituteded with a view to promote the use of official language Hindi on mechanical or electronic devices. |
10/24/1995 | A total eclipse of the sun witnessed from India to Vietnam. |
10/29/1929 | Vyankat Chalaiyya Manipalli Narayan Chalaiyya, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born. |
2/12/1985 | Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people. |
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