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Historical Event on 2/26/1915
Pran Nath Chhuttani, great physician and teacher, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/29/1982 | Shree Maa Anandmayee of universal fame passed away. Her body was laid to rest at Shree Anandamayee Ashram in Kankhal. |
| 2/15/1976 | The Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE) was established at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. |
| 6/20/1869 | Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great industrialist, social reformer, patriot and founder of Kirloskar Industry, was born at Belgaum. |
| 10/31/1920 | Inaugural session of the All India Trade Union Congress was conducted in Bombay. |
| 7/1/1952 | Olympic Games open at Helsinki. |
| 11/19/1961 | World Council of Churches convened their third assembly at New Delhi during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group. |
| 8/27/1987 | B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal. |
| 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. |
| 3/31/1959 | Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India. |
| 11/16/1883 | Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and journalist, was born at Varanasi. |
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