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Historical Event on 3/14/1895

Nihalsing Gurumukh, former Chief Minister of Delhi and Governer of Rajasthan, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/1/1996T. S. R. Subramaniam was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1998.
8/26/1984An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
11/17/1935Deodhar Gopal Krishna, great social worker and architect of ""Seva Sadan"" (Pune), passed away.
4/3/1914Sam Hormuj Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, India's first Field Marshal, was born. He was better known as ""Sam Manekshaw"".
9/6/1972Allauddin Khan, famous Sarod player, passed away.
10/16/1952Pakistan's first Test vs India starts at Delhi.
5/8/1996The governing Congress party is routed in Indian elections that have left no party with a clear mandate to govern.
12/10/1902Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.
6/3/1844Balkrishna Bhatt, essay writer, critic and journalist in Hindi, was born.
2/17/1948Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was re-designated as the 5th Battalion the 8th Gorkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles).