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Historical Event on 8/14/1900

S. K. Patil, Congress leader, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/18/19371,100 prisoners freed after appeal by Gandhi, his first political act in year.
10/15/1992Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab.
3/11/1881Ashley Eden unveiled in Calcutta Town Hall the first statue of Indians Ram Nath Tagore and Dwarkanath Tagore.
5/1/1960Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujrat States.
12/5/1950Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India.
7/19/1965Batukeshwar Dutt, great revolutionary, passed away.
1/31/1969Saint Meherbaba passed away.
2/23/1952Employees Provident Fund Bill and Miscellaneous Provision Act passed in the Lok Sabha.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
2/25/1976India announces plan to penalize parents who have more than two children.