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October

What Happened this Day in India History Events.

1902 The veteran socialist leader Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan was born.
1916 Social worker Chandika Amritrao Deshmukh was born.
1942 Bollywood emperor and century great Amitabh Bachchan was born in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh.
1987 India's Peace Army launched Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka. The campaign was waged to liberate Jaffna by destroying the LTTE's occupation.
1737 An earthquake in Calcutta (now Kolkata) killed 3 lakh people, half the city was devastated by this natural disaster.
2001 Trinidad-born Indian-born British writer Vidyadhar Suraj Prasad Noypal was announced to be awarded the 2001 Nobel Literature Prize.
1930 Jawaharlal Nehru was released from Naini Central Jail.
2008 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flagged off from Naogaon station and flagged off the first train to run in the valley of Kashmir.