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Historical Event on 8/14/1996

Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/26/1984An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
3/5/1990Government announces an interim relief of Rs. 360 crore to 5 lakh victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
2/9/1991India holds the last decennial census of the century.
3/5/1931Mahatma Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign a pact referred in Indian History as ""Gandhi-Irwin Pact"", after which the civic disobedience movement was taken back.
2/12/1928Bardoli Satyagrah (Gujarat) was led by Vallabhbhai Patel against the Bombay government's decision to hike the revenue on cotton by 22 percent while its prices declined Internationally. Ultimately the govenment quashed the hike.
8/21/1997Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people.
3/23/2000Udham Singh (72), hockey legend, died at his home town in Sansarpur (near Jalandhar).
7/7/196294 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay.
3/24/1855First long distance telegram message was opened between Agra and Calcutta at a distance of 1,300 km.
2/9/1874Govind Tryambak Darekar, Marathi poet, was born.