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Historical Event on 1/3/1975
Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/27/1906 | China, as suzerain of Tibet, has agreed to the terms of a treaty proposed by Britain. According to the treaty, foreign powers may not send representatives to Tibet, receive transportation or mining concessions, or occupy, buy or lease any territory in Tibet without British permission. The British want to prevent the Russians from establishing a protectorate over Tibet, which lies on India's northern border. Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, failed in attempts to communicate with Tibet's ruler, the Dalai Lama. A British military expedition fought its way to the capital at Lhasa and concluded the agreement. |
| 12/25/1979 | Opening day of Fourth Test Cricket, India 8-112 v Pakistan at Kanpur. |
| 11/2/1956 | Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons. |
| 10/28/1998 | The 1997 B.C. Roy National Award was presented to 18 medical experts. |
| 10/28/1998 | A battle was fought at Turkra or Turkra Qasba (in the Balasore district) in which the Afghans were routed. |
| 5/5/1818 | Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, was born at Trier, Germany. |
| 4/1/1993 | National Aeronautical Laboratory becomes National Aerospace Laboratories. |
| 10/23/1883 | Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, a pioneer in Indian Geology, was born at Surat in Gujarat. |
| 5/28/1895 | Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter, author and painter, was born. |
| 2/14/1929 | Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. |
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