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Historical Event on 5/14/1996
H.D. Deve Gowda elected leader of the third front as its prime ministerial candidate.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/15/1904 | Mogubai Kurdikar, veteran singer of 'Jaypur Gharana', was born. |
| 4/10/1901 | Amiya Chakravarty, educationist, was born at Serampore in West Bengal. |
| 4/10/1901 | Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies. |
| 6/16/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, Vice-President, is the joint candidate of Congress(I) and United Front for Presidentship in July 14 election. |
| 5/1/1995 | 60 killed as Madras-Kanyakumari Express collides with a goods train at Danishpet. |
| 3/18/1944 | Subhash Chandra Bose formed Azad Hind Fauz and took control of Kohima-Imphal. |
| 12/12/1971 | The first aerial victory was when MiG-21FLs of No. 47 Squadron shot down a PAF F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch and this was followed by three more victories in quick succession on 17 December, when MiG-21FLs of No. 29 Squadron escorting HF-24 Maruts, shot down intercepting F-104s near Uttarlai in the Rajasthan desert in gun-missile encounters, while a third F-104, on an intruding mission, was shot down by another MiG 21FL of No.29 Squadron. |
| 12/12/1971 | Muhammad of Bin Quasim (Kasim), Arabs, attacked on Sindh and captured it. Muhammad defeated and killed King Dahir, Hindu king, at Rawar. |
| 7/1/1930 | Vinodkumar C. Gupta, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 6/29/1893 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta. |
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