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Historical Event on 8/14/1996
Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/16/1997 | Ramakrishna Hegde launches a new national political party, Lok Shakti. |
| 2/10/1921 | Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated Kashi Vidya Peeth. |
| 5/30/1987 | Goa becomes the 25th state of India. |
| 12/5/1998 | Jaswant Singh and Pramod Mahajan take over as the new Foreign Minister and Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Jagmohan takes over as Minister for Communications. |
| 10/14/1910 | Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India. |
| 3/31/1992 | The PM to look after foreign affairs. |
| 12/6/1993 | Samrendra Kundu, former foreign state minister and socialist of Orrisa, passed away. |
| 3/9/1902 | Edward Durell Stone, US architect (US Embassy, New Delhi), was born. |
| 8/13/1638 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, was born at Salwa. |
| 1/21/1999 | Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, suspends his party's protest against the coming India-Pakistan cricket matches after an urgent meeting with the Union Home Minister in Mumbai. |
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