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Historical Event on 7/14/1969
85 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/12/1992 | 72 militants surrendered before Punjab CM Beant Singh. |
| 6/15/1907 | Narayan Ganesh Goray, freedom fighter and socialist, was born at Hindala (Maharashtra). |
| 1/20/1993 | Karnataka ministry expanded to include 27 more members; S.M. Krishna made Dy. CM. |
| 11/12/1996 | Over 350 people die in mid-air collision in Bhiwani district, Haryana. |
| 7/6/1998 | Moshood Abiola, the detained Nigerian politician and presumed winner of the 1993 elections, died in Abuja. |
| 2/19/1974 | Bombay High Oil stock was found in the sea near Mumbai. |
| 1/29/1976 | Parliamenentary Committee on official language constituted. The Committee has since then submitted six parts of its report and Presidential orders have been issued on first five parts of it. The sixth part is in print. |
| 4/29/1997 | R. N. Malhotra, 71, former RBI Governor, died. |
| 9/1/1995 | Chandrababu Naidu assumes office as the new CM of Andhra Pradesh. |
| 1/1/1903 | A vast crowd thronged the great plain outside Delhi today, waiting to hear the declaration that King Edward VII was Emperor of India. The crowd, clothed in brilliantly colored garments, was largely composed of common people who had come to the durbar to see India's princes pledge their fealty to the Emperor . The Duke of Connaught, representing King Edward, sat on the left of the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who sat on a throne surrounded by giant silver footstools. Lord Curzon spoke briefly, then read a message from the King, who expressed regret at not being present at the durbar and his wishes for ""the increasing prosperity of my Indian Empire."" Among the dignitaries in the amphi-theater were 600 veterans of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-58. |
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