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Historical Event on 8/14/1987
Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/9/1966 | Heroes of the 1942 movement were honoured at a rally in Red Fort. |
4/10/1901 | Amiya Chakravarty, educationist, was born at Serampore in West Bengal. |
3/16/1998 | Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party. |
2/3/1873 | Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, was born. |
8/20/1997 | Arun Gawli, Mumbai underworld don, arrested for his alleged involvement in the killing of a builder. |
5/22/1936 | Lord Brabourne laid the foundation stone of Brabourne Stadium in Bombay. |
11/10/1848 | Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
5/29/1947 | Establishment of Indian Standard Institution. |
9/21/1938 | Prof. Raghuveer Singh Rathore, Cricket Test umpire for one test in 1990-91, was born in Rajasthan. |
6/4/1941 | National Seva Dal was established. |
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