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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 |
| 10/11/1737 | Sultan Mehmood completely destroyed the Temple of Somnath. |
| 11/1/1996 | Three national parties (Indira Congress, Janata Party and Samata Party) to lose their recognition as national parties as they failed to get the minimum required support in the general election to the 11th Lok Sabha. |
| 5/26/1885 | Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi playwright, comedy author and poet, was born. |
| 5/3/1969 | Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980) became the acting President of India. |
| 7/23/1918 | Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 6/5/1984 | Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab. |
| 9/4/1984 | Air Chief Marshal L. M. Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 01/07/1985. |
| 7/17/1996 | Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth. |
| 8/15/1918 | Hans Kumar Tiwari, famous poet and translater, was born. |
| 8/10/1992 | P. P. Thorat, retired Lt and General, died. |
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