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Historical Event on 7/14/1997

Eleventh Presidential election with K.R.Narayanan and T.N. Seshan as candidates; 732 out of 775 MPs and 3893 out of 4058 MLAs cast their ballots.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/5/1987The centenary of Bombay Fire Brigade was celebrated. (CIVIC).
7/15/1967Narayan Shripad Rajhans (Balgandharv), famous singer and actor, passed away.
4/26/1973Judge A.N. Ray became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 28/01/1977.
10/6/1935Jeevan D. Ghosh, cricket Test umpire from 1978-91, was born in Bengal. He has the distinction of having the longest umpiring career of 32 years in India.
3/21/1997Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake Open billiards in Chennai.
3/5/1990Government announces an interim relief of Rs. 360 crore to 5 lakh victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
5/31/1987Daman and Diu to remain as union territories after Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
12/23/1900Charansingh Chaudhary, former Prime Minister of India and a farmer's leader, was born.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
11/22/1997Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad.