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Historical Event on 10/16/1922
M.V. Desai, social reformer and journalist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/25/1992 | BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven. |
| 3/30/1949 | Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), passed away. |
| 5/2/1996 | General Election 2nd phase begins in 204 LS and 223 Assembly constituencies spread over 17 States & union territories. |
| 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. |
| 10/10/1977 | 61 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini. |
| 6/23/1985 | Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died. |
| 11/20/1946 | Gandhiji starts tour without party. |
| 8/26/1997 | Employee Provident Fund scheme of 1952 amended to ensure that all PF claims are settled within 30 days from the date of receipt of claims by the PF Commissioner. |
| 10/18/1983 | Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer 55 Tests for India, 3208 runs @ 39.12, died. |
| 9/1/1999 | The Congress(I) President, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, launches a broadside against the Vajpayee Government on handling of Kargil issue. |
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