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Historical Event on 2/14/1996

Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/14/1963Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, passed away.
12/27/1998Churches and missionary schools come under attack and many were injured in a fresh outbreak of communal violence in Surat and Dangs district of Gujarat even as the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad announce the stepping up of their stir against the alleged conversion of Hindus.
12/12/1901Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore founded the first dance school called as ""Kala Bhawan"" and established the ""Barahamacharya Ashram"", the core of Vishwa Bharati University of Shantiniketan, near Bolpur. It was formally opened on December.
8/12/1991Parliament passes the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (prevention) amendment bill.
2/27/1993Rupee made fully convertible in Man Mohan Singh's third successive budget.
9/26/1991Ordinance to amend MRTP Act and the Companies Act totally removes pre-entry restrictions on new industrial houses and expansion of the existing ones.
7/28/1921Congress decided to boycott the visit of Prince of Wales in India.
8/15/1985Accord reached on the Assam foreign nationals issue, agitation called off.
12/19/1988Umashankar Joshi, Gyanpeeth awardee and Gujrathi poet, died.
4/11/1999A.K.A. Abdul Samad (72), general secretary of IUML and State unit president, died in Chennai.