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Historical Event on 8/21/1988
500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/9/1664 | Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place. |
| 1/3/1922 | Kirat Chothairam Babani, versatile Sindhi Writer and Journalist, was born. |
| 1/11/1994 | Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away. |
| 6/9/1999 | The Indian army occupies two key positions in the Batalik sector. |
| 10/14/1992 | 10 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah. |
| 1/29/1853 | Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born. |
| 11/20/1989 | Hirabai Barodekar, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", passed away. |
| 1/14/1994 | C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away. |
| 3/16/1924 | Bhupendranath Basu, great freedom fighter, President of Congress and fluent orator, passed away. |
| 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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