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Historical Event on 1/14/1993

The Supreme Court absolves Railway Minister Jaffer Sharief of corruption charges in the wagon deal with Asea Brown Boveri.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/17/1998Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.
12/12/1992The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.
4/28/1986Malayalam film `Chidambaram' directed by G. Aravindan wins best feature film award and Shyam Benegal bags the Best Director award for the Hindi film 'Trikal'.
1/27/1988The first ever helicopter mail service was inaugurated at Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The first flight was from Port Blair to Havelock Island and its inaugurated by the Governer of Andaman and Nicobar Island.
6/30/1965Cease-fire was agreed under UN auspices between India and Pakistan, who signed treaty to stop the war at Rann of Kutch.
6/25/1888Lord Louis Mountbatten, British politician, was born.
2/1/1894Chitravshastri, Marathi dictionary creator, was born.
4/16/1991President's rule imposed in Haryana.
1/1/1862Indian Penal Code and code of Criminal Procedure passed on October 6, 1860 came into force.
4/3/1991UP Assembly dissolved to pave way for Assembly polls .