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Historical Event on 4/14/1907
P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/29/1997 | Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'. |
11/15/1913 | Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15) |
11/22/1997 | Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad. |
12/28/1977 | Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died. |
11/1/1956 | Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved. |
2/19/1974 | Bombay High Oil stock was found in the sea near Mumbai. |
2/10/1916 | Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged. |
4/17/1799 | Srirangapatnam was surrounded by British Army in the fourth and last Mysore war which began in 1798. Tipu Sultan' was killed in the battle on 4th May. The East India Company announced the Seringapatanam Medal (1799). |
3/31/1994 | Argentina President Carlos Menem visits India. |
4/14/1991 | NF promises 5-10\% jobs to economically backward sections among the upper castes. |
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