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Historical Event on 7/27/1889
Branch of Indian National Congress, 'British India Committee' , was established under the leadership of Dadabhai Navroji.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
9/18/1615 | Thomas Roe presented himself at Jahangir's court in Ajmer. He left India on February 17, 1618. |
1/27/1994 | 55 miners, trapped inside New Kenda Colliery of Eastern Coal Fields, die. |
2/28/1951 | Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot. |
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. |
3/19/1907 | Dr. Dilawar Hussain, right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, was born. |
6/20/1939 | Ramakant Bhikaji Desai, cricketer - pace bowler for India in the 60s, was born in Bombay |
5/9/1993 | S. Mulgaokar, 82, journalist, passed away. |
9/29/1942 | The British police shot Matangini Hazra, a 72-year old woman of Tamluk town in Midnapur district, when she was leading the flag at Tamluk in August movement procession. |
11/27/1999 | Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob is sworn in Punjab Governor. |
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