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Historical Event on 1/14/1946

Two jetties collapse in Ganges; 160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/4/1989Hardeo Joshi replaces Shiv Charan Mathur as CM of Rajasthan.
4/18/1959Premier Chou En-lai insists Tibetan Dalai Lama was abducted to India.
7/10/1924Johannes B van Heutsz, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1904-09), died at the age of 73.
2/10/1916Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged.
5/6/199712 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi.
12/22/1998Janata Dal's S. Jaipal Reddy selected for the ''best parliamentarian award'' for 1998.
9/8/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
3/22/1947India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
9/7/1998Swami Ranganathananda is elected the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Order.
4/21/1938Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet, passed away.