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Historical Event on 5/14/1978
Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/6/1954 | Kashmir Assembly accepts re-unification with India. |
| 3/8/1963 | Gursharan Singh Narainsingh, cricketer (Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90), was born in Amritsar. |
| 3/25/1963 | Yagyawalk Bharadwaj, famous botany scientist, passed away. |
| 7/6/1992 | The centre decides to allow TV and Radio time slots for private producers. |
| 2/25/1968 | Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 16/12/1970. |
| 5/11/1888 | Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist, writer and connoisseur of music and arts, was born. |
| 3/4/1858 | J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands. |
| 1/4/1907 | Govind Rai, renowned Gujarati novelist and writer of 'Saraswati Chandra', passed away. |
| 1/8/1964 | Jack ""Murph the Surf"" Murphy, 27, and a companion were arrested in Miami as suspects in the theft of $410,000 rare gems from the American Museum of Natural History in October of last year. The world's largest sapphire, the Star of India, and eight of the other 22 stolen gems were returned to New York in an attorney's coat pocket, having been recovered in two water-logged suede pouches from a Miami bus terminal locker with the help of a third suspect. The three described themselves as ""beach boys."" Murphy is a sometimes an aquatic clown, but mainly they were notorious jewel thieves. Murphy was also accused of pistol-whipping actress Eva Gabor and stealing jewels worth $50,000 from her a year ago. |
| 5/2/1922 | Kedarnath Modi, great Industrialist in Maharashtra, was born. |
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