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Historical Event on 4/14/1907
P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/7/1956 | Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy. |
| 3/14/1931 | First Indian talkie film 'Alam Ara' released at Majestic Cinema, Bombay. Directed by Ardeshir Irani, the film was 11,152 ft. long and was produced by Imperial Film Co., Bombay and beared censored No. 10043 on March 11. The most remarkable thing about this film was birth of sound in Indian films, it came with a bang and quickly displaced the silent movies and brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry. |
| 3/14/1931 | Akbar removed 'Jeziya' or toll-tax for his non-Muslim subjects. |
| 3/17/1994 | Wali Mohammad Itto, former Speaker of J&K Assembly shot dead by militants. |
| 12/25/1999 | An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops. |
| 4/10/1937 | Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away. |
| 5/25/1877 | Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously. |
| 4/3/1950 | Jayprakash Shankarrao Mundada, cabinet Minister of BJP-Shiv Sena alliance, was born. |
| 5/2/1908 | Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot. |
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