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Historical Event on 2/22/1913
Judge Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Lucknow.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/15/1993 | IA Airbus with 272 on board forcelands on a paddy field near Tirupati; all passengers safe. |
| 4/24/1973 | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay. |
| 3/31/1977 | N. K. Mukarji was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1980. |
| 8/18/1958 | Dr.Bhagwandas, famous Congress leader and theosophist, died. |
| 9/8/1965 | Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division. |
| 10/27/1992 | Veerappa Moily, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, resigned from Bangarappa Government in Karnataka. |
| 2/23/1993 | Pre-budget Economic Survey proposes closure of sick PSE and rationalisation of tax and interests rates. |
| 8/6/1994 | Hajratbal' was handed over to Muslim Auwkaf Trust. |
| 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. |
| 7/19/1955 | Roger Michael Humphery Binny, Indian medium-pace all-rounder early eighties, was born at Bangalore. |
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