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Historical Event on 12/14/1979
Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer, two Tests for India and bowling average of 205, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/19/1908 | Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born. |
| 1/1/1995 | 8th World Tamil Conference begins in Madurai. |
| 1/27/1994 | Union Cabinet approves inclusion of the land reforms laws in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution. |
| 7/25/1982 | Gyani Zail Singh became 7th President of India. He held the office till July 25, 1987. |
| 1/18/1983 | Indi Singh, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Vancouver, Canada. |
| 12/3/1971 | Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies. |
| 10/2/1906 | Raja Ravi Verma died at Attingal near Trivandrum, Kerala. He is remembered for his artistic work in 'Ram Panchayatan', 'Vishwamitra-Menaka', 'Shakuntala writing a letter', 'Shiv Parvati'. A commemorative stamp was issued by the Postal Department on April 29, 1971 in his honour. |
| 1/24/2000 | Supreme Court imposes, with immediate effect, a ban on industries in Delhi and Haryana from discharging untreated industrial effluents into the Yamuna. |
| 11/5/1996 | United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I). |
| 7/12/1996 | Bail granted to Harshad Mehta, prime accused in the securities scam. |
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