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Historical Event on 1/14/1959

Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, emerges as leading choice for president in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
9/21/1938Prof. Raghuveer Singh Rathore, Cricket Test umpire for one test in 1990-91, was born in Rajasthan.
2/27/1990Polls in Pondicherry and eight states.
6/8/1999ATP announced Paes-Bhupathi as No. 1 ranked doubles team. In individual doubles ranking, Bhupathi and Paes were No. 1 and 2 respectively.
9/6/1999Vyjayanthimala Bali, former Congress (I) MP, joins the BJP.
12/16/1909Lal Singh Narayan Singh, cricketer (scored 15 & 29 in India's 1st Test match), was born near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1/6/1987Establishment of 'Maharashtra Journalist Fund' Trust.
6/30/1823Sir Dinshaw Manokji Petit, famous industrialist, was born.
3/5/1993The government de-reserves the mining industry throwing it open to private sector as well as to foreign investment.
9/24/1936It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity.