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Historical Event on 1/15/1934
Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/22/1938 | IRFA was registered as a local body not administered by the Government on March 22, 1938 under the Government of India Act No. XXI of 1860. |
| 11/2/1908 | 50 years after the start of direct rule, Edward VII talks of 'prudently extending' democracy. |
| 2/1/1969 | Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta. |
| 3/11/1992 | Dr. Anita B. Bose-Pfaff, daughter of Netaji, declines to accept the 'Bharat Ratna' conferred on her father. |
| 2/12/1999 | The Centre dismisses the Rabri Devi Government in Bihar and imposes President's rule. |
| 12/8/1998 | An Indian film, 'The Terrorist' wins all top awards including the Golden Pyramid award for the best film at the 23rd Cairo International Film Festival. Santosh Sivan gets the best director award, while its actress Ayesha Dharker bags the best actress award. |
| 8/5/1986 | Vellupillai Prabakaran, Tamil rebel leader, died. The vision of secession for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority may have come to an end. But so, too, might the violence that the nation had endured. Today, Tamil rebel leader Vellupillai Prabakaran accepted the peace accord signed last week by India and Sri Lanka. Prabakaran surrendered to Indian forces and his men turned over their weapons. The pact is seen as a compromise by the co-signers. But to the dejected Tamil leader, who has fought since childhood for a Tamil victory, it was a stinging defeat. The treaty creates an autonomous multi-religious zone in the eastern and northern provinces. The rebels dreamed and passed away for a separate state of their own. |
| 12/1/1886 | Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Musran in U.P. |
| 5/18/1995 | Sukhomoy Sengupta, 76, Tripura's first CM, passed away. |
| 7/16/1991 | Railway budget hikes passenger fares by 15-20\% and freight up by 10\%. |
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