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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 |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
| 7/13/1997 | A mob, allegedly of Shiv Sainiks, attacks and ransacks official residences of Congress leaders Chagan Bhujbal and Madhukar Pichad (Assembly). |
| 7/29/1980 | India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics. |
| 11/20/1947 | Parliament gives Indian government censorship powers over press at New Delhi. |
| 10/10/1957 | Jagdeep', a children's film, won the first prize at the Ninth International Exhibition of Films for Children at Venice. |
| 6/23/1984 | An 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. |
| 12/30/1865 | Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay. |
| 11/3/1984 | Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated. |
| 2/19/1997 | Massive blowout in ONGC oil field at Devarapally, A.P. |
| 8/27/1604 | Guru Granth Sahib was established in the Golden Temple of Amritsar. |
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