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Historical Event on 2/5/1981
Kuda Bux, great Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), passed away at 75.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/8/1864 | Hari Narayan Apte, a well known Marathi writer who popularised social and historical themes in his novels, was born. He presided over the 8th Marathi Sahitya Sammelen in 1912. |
| 3/26/1997 | Russia agrees to help India in developing a state-of-the-art integrated air defence system, even as the two agree to carry military cooperation into the 21st century during the visit of Prime Minister Deve Gowda. |
| 9/30/1916 | Jagan Nath Bhardwaj, social worker and trade unionist, was born at Chartgarh, H.P. |
| 7/4/1992 | Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 5/16/1975 | Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union. |
| 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. |
| 8/11/1993 | Brahmaprakash Chaudhary, first Chief Minister of Delhi and former central minister, died. |
| 5/25/1899 | Nazrul Islam, revolutionary and Bengali poet, was born in Churulia village of Burdwan district. |
| 10/9/1970 | Production of Uranium 233 started at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay. |
| 11/7/1975 | Indian Supreme Court validates election of Indira Gandhi at New Delhi. |
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