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The date of May 12 is recorded in the history of the country and the world for many important reasons. The soul trembles when we remember the earthquake that occurred in China on May 12, 2008. As soon as the earth changed its shape for two moments, 87 thousand people were lost in the lap of death. Thousands of people went missing in this deluge, considered the most powerful earthquake in history. Lakhs of people became homeless. It took years to compensate for the huge loss of property. About four lakh people were injured by the earthquake. This earthquake occurred in China's Sichuan province at 2:28 pm local time. Its intensity was recorded at 7.9 on the Richter scale.
important events
1459: Rao Jodha established Jodhpur.
1666: Under the Treaty of Purandar, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj reached Agra to meet Aurangzeb.
The Paris Agreement came into effect in 1784.
1847: William Clayton invented the odometer.
1915: Revolutionary Rash Behari Bose left India aboard the Japanese boat Sanuki Maru.
1965: Israel and West Germany exchange letters establishing diplomatic relations.
2002: The then US President Jimmy Carter reached Cuba on a five-day visit to talk to Fidel Castro. Carter became the first US president to visit Cuba since Castro's 1959 revolution.
1999: Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Stepanish was appointed acting Prime Minister.
1999: Resignation of US Finance Minister Robert Rubin.
2002: Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia expressed their desire for a peace agreement in West Asia.
2007: Violence in Karachi city of Pakistan.
2008: More than 87 thousand people died due to earthquake in Sichuan, China. Three lakh 74,643 people were injured by the earthquake.
2008: Due to no consensus being reached on the reinstatement of judges, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif decided to withdraw from the joint government.
2010: Africa Airways plane crashes near Tripoli International Airport in Libya. 103 out of 104 people on board die.
2010: In the famous Bathani Tola massacre case of Bihar, the first Additional District and Sessions Judge of Bhojpur sentenced three culprits to death and 20 to life imprisonment.
2015: 218 people died and more than 3500 were injured due to earthquake in Nepal.
Birth
1820: Florence Nightingale, the founder of the modern nursing movement.
1875: Famous philosopher Krishnachandra Bhattacharya.
1895: Prominent philosopher and writer on spiritual topics J. Krishnamurthy.
1933: Indian badminton player Nandu Natekar. First Indian to win an international title.
1980: Rishi Sunak, British politician of Indian origin.
death
1993: Well-known Hindi poet Shamsher Bahadur Singh.
1984: Dhananjay Keer, biographer of Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar.
1984: Indian Kathak dancer Alaknanda.
2015: Famous Bengali novelist Suchitra Bhattacharya.
important day
-International Nurses Day.