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Historical Event on 8/14/1996

Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/5/1994Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, a key accused in 1993's Bombay blast case, was arrested.
11/14/1964Nehru Commemorative coin is released.
5/31/1973Mohan Kumaramangalam, Central Minister, died in an air crash near Delhi.
11/22/1988Baba Amte wins U.N. Human Rights Award.
1/1/1988The Officers Training School (OTS) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy. Besides training Indian nationals, 74 cadets from Sri Lanka have also been trained at the OTA.
5/1/1977Janata Party was established.
3/3/1891Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created.
1/8/1993Dr. P.C. Alexander appointed Governor of Maharashtra.
2/10/1691Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก