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Historical Event on 2/8/1999
Gen. K. Sundarji (69), former Chief of Army Staff, died in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/19/1891 | Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper. |
| 8/1/1952 | Yajurvindra Singh Jaswant Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman four Tests 1977-79), was born in Rajkot. |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
| 2/8/1999 | Gen. K. Sundarji (69), former Chief of Army Staff, died in New Delhi. |
| 9/6/1995 | Salil Chaudhary, famous music director in Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 7/1/1961 | Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal. |
| 12/24/1880 | Pattabhi Sitaramayya, politician and president of Indian National Congress, was born in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 8/1/1966 | Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (HPKV) was established at Palampur under the aegis of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, to cater to the need of hilly areas of erstwhile Punjab. |
| 4/26/1762 | Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, was born at Tiruvarur. |
| 11/22/1997 | Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad. |
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