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Historical Event on 4/14/1941

Julie Christie, actress (Dr Zhivago), was born in Assam, India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/8/1929Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs on the Assembly Hall.
8/15/1921Amrit Rai, novelist and translater, was born .
10/25/1980Sahir Ludhiyanvi, famous Urdu poet, died.
9/3/1992Delhi High Court verdict on Bofors challenged in the Supreme Court.
1/24/1997Justice Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi and Justice Sukhdev Singh Kang appointed Governors of Tamil Nadu and Kerala respectively.
1/25/1914Gandhi reaches agreement with South African Union govt. on treatment of Indian nationals at South Africa.
12/14/1998The Supreme Court allows Karnataka to begin skeletal work on erection of 26 crest gates at the Almatti dam on the Krishna at ''its own risk and cost'', but directs it not to raise the dam height beyond the present 509 metres.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
6/2/1975Devendra Mohan Bose, famous Scientist of Physics, passed away.
6/1/1938Continental Publication' started.