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Historical Event on 1/25/1932
Rammanohar Vishnunarayan Tripathi, great social worker and political leader of Maharashtra, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/25/1844 | Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, was born. |
| 11/16/1989 | 66 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued. |
| 5/25/1991 | Indian, UN Angola Verification Mission - I ended (UNAVEM - I June 1989 - May 1991). |
| 2/10/1691 | Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta. |
| 1/14/1938 | Belur Math, new temple, was consecrated in Calcutta. |
| 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. |
| 1/8/1947 | Rajasthan University established at Jaipur. |
| 3/2/1994 | Autonomous Hill Council for Leh set up. |
| 12/20/1999 | Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party Chief, opposes signing of CTBT. |
| 3/10/1945 | Madhavrao Scindia, prince of Gwalior and Congress leader, was born. |
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