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Historical Event on 2/14/1755
Raghuji Bhosle, great fighter of Bhosle gharana in Nagpur, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/31/1961 | Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha, first Chief Minister of Bihar, passed away. |
| 12/23/1969 | Armstrong and Aldrin collected Moon rock, which was kept on exhibition in New Delhi. |
| 8/1/1916 | Mrs. Annie Besant in cooperation with Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the Home Rule League Movement with Dadabhai Naoroji as its President. |
| 4/24/1980 | Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief. |
| 3/28/1916 | Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away. |
| 6/30/1999 | The first ever direct bus service between India and Bangladesh gets delayed due to heavy rain. |
| 9/12/1779 | Garibdas, follower of Saint Kabir and founder of 'Garib Panth', died. |
| 7/7/1799 | Ranjit Singh captured Lahore in Punjab from Sikh rulers. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 1/22/1993 | A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off. |
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