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Historical Event on 12/14/1994

10 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/3/1997Anjan (Lalji Pandey), well known lyricist and noted poet, died.
5/30/1955Narayan Malhar Joshi, father of Indian Worker's Movement, passed away.
5/30/1955Allauddin Masood Shah, Sultan of Dehli, was thrown off the throne.
7/1/1879Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department.
8/7/1982Krishnakanta Radhakant Handique, linguist, educationist, Sanskrit scholar, principal of J.B. College and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. He also authored the learned works 'Naisadhacarita', 'Yasastilaka and Indian Culture' etc. His original treatise written in Sanskrit by Somaveda in the 10th century is an encyclopedic work dealing with Jainism and Indian thoughts and culture.
12/24/1921Rabindranath Tagore established ""Visva Bharati"" at Santiniketan with Brojendra Nath Seal as the chief guest.
7/17/1893Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.
9/30/1996PVN Rao, who was to appear in court in the Pathak cheating case, gets a reprieve
1/8/1964Jack ""Murph the Surf"" Murphy, 27, and a companion were arrested in Miami as suspects in the theft of $410,000 rare gems from the American Museum of Natural History in October of last year. The world's largest sapphire, the Star of India, and eight of the other 22 stolen gems were returned to New York in an attorney's coat pocket, having been recovered in two water-logged suede pouches from a Miami bus terminal locker with the help of a third suspect. The three described themselves as ""beach boys."" Murphy is a sometimes an aquatic clown, but mainly they were notorious jewel thieves. Murphy was also accused of pistol-whipping actress Eva Gabor and stealing jewels worth $50,000 from her a year ago.
1/9/1904Pratab Singh Chaudhari, social worker, was born at Multan, Punjab .