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Historical Event on 2/14/1807
Khanderao Holkar, one of the sardars in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/16/1941 | Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born. |
| 7/13/1930 | Swarup Kishan Reu, cricket test umpire for 17 tests from 1978-85, was born in Delhi and was honoured by Padmashree in 1986. He joins the record of umpiring most Tests for India. |
| 10/19/1925 | B. Shankaranand, former central minister, was born. |
| 11/12/1954 | Bharat Reddy, cricket wicket-keeper (India 1979), was born in Madras. |
| 4/20/1992 | U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away. |
| 10/3/1903 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist, was born. |
| 12/28/1926 | Shirish Kumar, freedom figher, was born. |
| 10/26/1961 | Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October. |
| 8/2/1922 | Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist, was born. |
| 7/7/1973 | 78 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India). |
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