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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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9/12/1905 | Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London. |
11/20/1981 | Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis. |
12/8/1875 | Tej Bahadur Sapru, great leader, was born. |
4/6/1955 | Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died. |
4/21/1997 | Inder Kumar Gujaral sworn as the 12th Prime Minister of India, along with old council of ministers in the H. D. Deve Gowda govt. minus Tamil Maanila Congress Minister and D. P. Yadav of Janata Dal. |
10/22/1999 | Balayogi is elected as Speaker of the Lok Sabha for second consecutive term. |
3/25/1983 | Modern oceanographic research ship of the world 'Sagar Kanya' landed first time in the sea. |
1/20/1997 | The third Test between India and South Africa ends in a draw in Johannesburg. |
7/1/1982 | MGR inaugurates Tamil Nadu's noon meal programme for poor children. |
3/24/1984 | Dilraj Singh, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Vancouver, Canada. |
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