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Historical Event on 4/30/1908
Khudiram Bose along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to throw a bomb at a carriage supposed to be carrying the tyrannical magistrate Kingsford. Unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/10/1993 | Narayan Keshav Upasni, famous educationist, passed away. |
| 1/8/1964 | Jack ""Murph the Surf"" Murphy, 27, and a companion were arrested in Miami as suspects in the theft of $410,000 rare gems from the American Museum of Natural History in October of last year. The world's largest sapphire, the Star of India, and eight of the other 22 stolen gems were returned to New York in an attorney's coat pocket, having been recovered in two water-logged suede pouches from a Miami bus terminal locker with the help of a third suspect. The three described themselves as ""beach boys."" Murphy is a sometimes an aquatic clown, but mainly they were notorious jewel thieves. Murphy was also accused of pistol-whipping actress Eva Gabor and stealing jewels worth $50,000 from her a year ago. |
| 10/17/1998 | Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in. |
| 9/29/1906 | Chhajju Ram, social worker and teacher, was born at Manawar, Chhamb. |
| 2/3/1992 | Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first). |
| 7/16/1996 | The four basin states of Narmada valley - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra - reach agreement to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat to 436' after which hydrological studies will be done for 5 years to decide whether the height should be raised to the awarded 455'. |
| 8/5/1905 | Subhadrakumari Chauvhan, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 1/15/1899 | Musaffir, Giani Gurmukh Singh, writer and politician, was born at Udhwal (Pakistan). |
| 12/21/1992 | BJP-sponsored no-trust motion against the Rao Government defeated 334-106 in the Lok Sabha; Vajpayee ends fast. |
| 1/3/1987 | Dr. Harekrishna Mehtab, former Chief Minister of Orrisa and Governer of Mumbai State, died. |
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