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Historical Event on 5/30/1985

Earthquake in Srinagar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/9/1965After Indo-Pak conflict of 1965, the Raksha Medal, Samar Seva Star and some others were introduced.
7/16/1996Narasimha Rao moves Delhi High Court seeking quashing of the summons issued against him by Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case.
3/25/1997Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India.
12/30/1974Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi.
11/11/1979President N. Sanjiva Reddy declares the opening of the first International Trade Fair of India.
3/18/1996President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces.
11/14/1889Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India, was born. To commemorate his birthday, this day is observed as 'Children's Day' from 1957.
7/9/1938Sanjeev Kumar, famous Hindi film actor, was born.
2/17/1931Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".
10/25/1995Narsimha Rao, PM, addresses the 50th anniversary session of the UN.