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Historical Event on 7/3/1948
H. M. S. Auchils was taken over by Indian Navy.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/9/1664 | Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place. |
| 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. |
| 4/30/1888 | Hailsones kill 246 in Moradabad. |
| 5/20/1991 | A. S. L. V. was launched. |
| 10/31/1989 | Dr. A. P. Mukherjee became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation till 11/01/90. |
| 5/9/1907 | Two thousand dacoits riot in eastern Bengal. |
| 7/5/1990 | G. C. Saxena, J&K Governor, promulgates J&K Disturbed Areas Act, 1990, declaring several districts as disturbed area. |
| 4/22/1870 | Vladimir IIyich Lenin, revolutionary freedom fighter and politician, was born at Simbrisk, Volga. |
| 8/1/1993 | Air Chief Marshal Swaroop Krishna Kaul PVSM, MVC, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Dec/1995. |
| 10/15/1921 | Suryanarayannamurty Rebbapragada, social reformer, college principal and journalist, was born at Rajahmundry in A.P. |
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