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Historical Event on 7/28/1921
The All-India Congress Party votes to boycott a forthcoming visit by the Prince of Wales and urges a boycott of imported cloth.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/1/1929 | Jyotirbhaskaracharya Jayant Salgaonkar was born. |
| 8/5/1965 | M. V. Sridhar, cricketer (scored 366 for Hyderabad vs Andhra Pradesh, 1994), was born. |
| 1/6/1999 | Shiv Sena activists dug up the Kotla pitch in Delhi with a view to prevent the Indo-Pakistan first Test which was to commence from Jan. 28. |
| 7/31/1948 | State Transport Corporation was established in Calcutta. |
| 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. |
| 8/28/1904 | First car rally between Calcutta to Barakpur held. |
| 4/26/1992 | Medha Patkar arrested in Gujarat as the third Annual Goldman Environmental Prize of $ 60000 is awarded to her. |
| 6/13/1932 | Nirmalchandra Sen, great revolutionary, died. |
| 4/20/1971 | India won Cricket Test Rubber' for the first time after defeating West Indies Cricket Team. |
| 1/1/1920 | P.M. Nadagouda, politician, was born at Mysore, Chitwadgi. |
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