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Historical Event on 10/11/1737

A violent earthquake and cyclone hit Calcutta which claimed 3,00,000 lives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/21/1994India and Myanmar decide to open border trade.
3/31/1904British slaughter hundreds of Tibetans.
4/15/1947Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace.
2/22/1885Jatindra Mohan Sen Gupta, great nationalist leader, was born.
9/21/1962Major General I. J. Rikhye completed the task in accordance with the memorandum to UNSF, thus fulfilling the mandate of cessation of hostilities without any incident.
7/10/1964Bangalore University was established in Karnataka.
2/10/1846British forces under Hugh Gough defeated Sikhs in the Battle of Sobrahan in India.
1/1/1918Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission.
6/23/1984An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid.
3/3/1990JD-BJP coalition government in Gujarat, Chimanbhai Patel to become CM; Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra and Bhairon Singh Shekhewat of BJP to head the BJP-JD coalition government in Rajasthan.