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Historical Event on 2/14/1970
Supreme Court holds nationalization of banks illegal. Presidential ordinance revalidates nationalization.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/29/1975 | West Indies won the fifth test against India after winning the exciting cricket series 3-2. |
| 3/13/1800 | Nana Phadanvis (Balaji Janardan Bhanu), veteran leader of Peshwa Kingdom, died. |
| 8/18/1956 | Sandeep Madhusudan Patil, great Indian batsman, was born in Bombay. |
| 10/12/1921 | Jayant Shridhar Tilak, great journalist, was born at Poona. |
| 11/3/1908 | Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 11/11/1994 | The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act. |
| 8/7/1906 | First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 7/12/1998 | India will not reverse the nuclear programme, declared Mr. Vajpayee. |
| 9/29/1977 | India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water. |
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