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Historical Event on 8/14/1987

A soldier in a guard of honor attacks Indian Prime Minister Gandhi with his rifle butt at Sri Lanka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/29/1966Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous mathematics expert, died.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.
7/13/1905Premnath Bazaz, famous Kashmir freedom fighter, was born.
7/13/1905While returning to his country, Timur Lung looted and destroyed Delhi and parts of North India including Hardwar, the Ganga pilgrimage town, and crossed Sindhu River.
5/25/1996DMK-led coalition ministry headed by R.V. Janakiraman sworn in Pondicherry.
10/10/1995G. R Khairnar, the high profile suspended Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Bombay, was reinstated.
6/30/1934Chintamani Nagesh Ramachandra Rao, famous Scientist and Chemist, was born. His research work confines to ""Solid State Chemistry"". In 1982 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
11/8/1960Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
11/15/1992At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
1/28/1933India in Waldorf Hotel in London read out a four and a half page note in Cambridge.