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Historical Event on 7/7/1973

78 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India).

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/15/1675Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in Delhi by Aurangzeb for his refusal to embrace him.
4/23/1968Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away.
10/30/1977One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers, who were expatriated from Sri Lanka, are shipped to Madras, South India.
11/27/1907Harivanshrai Bachchan, famous Hindi writer and poet, was born at Allahabad.
3/27/1898Syed Ahmad Khan, great social reformer, educationist, journalist, leader and one of the most eminent builders of Modern India, passed away at Aligarh.
4/14/1990Over 90 persons killed in an Airbus crash in Bangalore.
11/21/1962India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India.
11/19/1985Lall Singh, cricketer (one Test for India 1932), passed away.
8/30/1983Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle.
5/18/1945Bhagwat Subramaniam Chandrasekhar, cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79), was born in Banglore. He received Arjun Award and Padmashree awards in 1972.