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Historical Event on 8/14/1997

Special session of Parliament to commemorate 50 years of independence.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/7/1965U.S. suspends military aid to India and Pakistan.
1/7/1993C. Subramaniam, Maharashtra Governor, resigns.
10/9/1999Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
10/5/1989Dalai Lama was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize (1989).
12/28/2000The Kanchi Acharya presents the Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati national eminence awards to former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi (in absentia), scientist Ramnarayan Agarwal and pravachan artist Rameshbhai Ojha.
9/20/1878Hindu"", an English weekly in Madras with G. S. Aiyer as its Editor, was first published with only 80 copies.
3/30/1977Swami Agnivesh merged his 'Bhartiya Aryasabha Party' in Janata Party.
2/11/1980Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, passed away.
10/28/1911Mutyalswami Muniswami Naidu, cricket Test umpire, one test in 1951-52, was born at Vadodara, Gujarat.
2/12/1928Lalit Mohan Sharma, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.