Important Days
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Important Events
1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
1948 – The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.[3]
Birth/Birth Anniversary
1910 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Indian-English lieutenant and mountaineer (d. 1998)
1927 – Anthony Low, Indian-English historian and academic (d. 2015)
1932 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
1950 – Tom Alter, Indian actor (d. 2017)
1974 – Vijay, Indian film actor in Tamil cinema
Death/ Death Anniversary
2014 – Rama Narayanan, Indian director and producer (b. 1949)
