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Historical Event on 5/14/1923

Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar, one of the founder members of Indian Congress and social reformer, passed away.

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3/6/1971Test debut of Sunil Gavaskar vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain.
12/4/1959Power Project was signed betwen India and Nepal, an agreement on the Gandak Irrigation.
2/6/1953Congress, PSP, CP and Jansangh recognised as All India parties by the Election Commission.
9/12/1995Heavy rainfall in the Himalaya region, resulting in landslide, claimed 70 lives near Kullu.
12/10/1993Kerala Congress(M) splits; Four MLAs, including Minister T.M.Jacob, expelled.
7/13/1912Shriman Narayan, educationist, administrator and diplomat, was born in Etawah, U.P.
3/16/1945Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, who was a revolutionary and brother of Swatantriya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, passed away.
2/10/1806Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Kainakary , Kerala.
8/11/1984A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud.