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Historical Event on 2/5/1936
Baba Maharaj Satarkar (Nilkanth Gyaneshwar Gore - Satarkar) was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/27/1926 | Arunkumar Vaidya, former General of Indian Army, was born. |
| 6/17/1917 | Krishan Kumar Chopra, medical practitioner and social worker, was born at Lahore. |
| 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. |
| 2/26/1996 | Parliament's budget session opens. |
| 2/26/1996 | Babur came to India , and conquered it through Sindh in his fifth attempt. |
| 12/15/1965 | Maharastra State Agriculture Industry Development Corporation established. |
| 11/1/2000 | T. R. Prasad was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He holds this office till date. |
| 2/22/1978 | Judge Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 11/07/1985. |
| 7/12/1949 | Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die. |
| 4/21/1938 | Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet, passed away. |
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