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Historical Event on 12/8/1900
Udayshankar, famous dance master, was born.
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| 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. |
| 4/13/1999 | D. Sripada Rao, former Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, is shot dead by People's War Group naxalites near Annaram village in Karimnagar district. |
| 4/3/1926 | Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, wounding 100 in Calcutta. |
| 12/10/1997 | Salman Haidar appointed India's High Commissioner to Britain. He succeeded M. L. Singhvi. |
| 10/15/1972 | Nirmalkumar Bose, great Indian human scientist, died. |
| 5/3/1999 | Cochin Port Trust men and Southern Railway women won the 21st Federation Cup volleyball titles in Pathanamthitta. |
| 3/31/1913 | Foundation stone of 'Gateway of India' was laid by Sir George Sydneham Clerk. |
| 5/22/1991 | Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away. |
| 9/11/1993 | Former Andhra CM Rama Rao, 71, weds 44-year-old college lecturer Lakshmi Sivaparvathi. |
| 1/26/1996 | 47th Republic Day celebrated;Chief Guest was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil. |
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