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Historical Event on 8/14/1998
The Government transferred Revenue Secretary N. K. Singh and Finance Secretary Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/25/1979 | Commercial Unity Day started. |
| 8/25/1917 | The first significant step towards the Indianization of the Army was initiated when seven selected Indians, serving in the Army, were granted King's Commission in the Infantry and the Cavalry. Before the World War ended, two more Indians, who previously held temporary commissions, were granted King's Commission. |
| 12/23/1964 | India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed. |
| 7/5/1997 | Janata Dal splits. Laloo Prasad Yadav forms Rashtriya Janata Dal and Sharad Yadav was elected as the Janta Dal president. |
| 11/24/1999 | The dedication ceremony of Shanmukhananda Hall is put off. |
| 9/2/1992 | Shripad Deshpande, senior journalist, passed away. |
| 11/27/1994 | Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 8/25/1963 | Allama Mashriqi, Muslim leader, passed away. |
| 7/12/1932 | The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir. |
| 4/1/1936 | Orissa state was formed as a province of British India separating from Bihar. |
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