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Historical Event on 1/15/1934

Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/30/1994G-15 summit in New Delhi decides to set up a trade panel.
6/14/1947Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.
8/17/1932V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.
12/30/1941Gandhiji, at his own request, is relieved of hi-leadership of Congress by Working Committee.
3/13/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.
10/9/1964K. M. George established the Kerala Congress Party.
5/14/1995Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people.
2/10/1846British forces under Hugh Gough defeated Sikhs in the Battle of Sobrahan in India.
11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
2/14/1952Smt. Sushma Kaushal Swaraj was born in Ambala Cantt. (Haryana).