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Historical Event on 7/22/1956
Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/24/1999 | Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi Airbus 300 with 186 people on board hijacked shortly after take-off. |
| 1/18/1842 | Mahadev Govind Ranade was born. He was the chief architect of Bombay Prathana Samaj. |
| 8/28/1896 | Firak Gorakhpuri, Urdu poet and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born. |
| 2/13/1994 | Yashwant Narsingh Kelkar, senior historian and journalist in Maharashtra, passed away. |
| 11/9/1942 | Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language, died. |
| 9/4/1888 | Mahatma Gandhi left for London, England to study Law. |
| 8/9/1970 | Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi. |
| 11/27/1994 | Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 7/6/1998 | Moshood Abiola, the detained Nigerian politician and presumed winner of the 1993 elections, died in Abuja. |
| 5/13/1962 | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) became the second President of India. He held this office till May 13, 1967. |
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