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Historical Event on 12/14/1895

George VI, King of England (1936-52), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/15/1924Shankarrao Bajirao Patil, great leader of Maharashtra, was born.
1/1/1978Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived.
10/24/1992Narmada, World Bank sets time to correct defects.
4/14/1944Blast in ammunition loaded on 1,318 tonned freighter 'S. S. Fort Stikine' which was anchored in Victoria Dock at Bombay. The explosion killed 1376 people, wrecking 27 ships and destroying 40,000 tons of food.
12/4/1796Bajirao became the second Peshwa.
11/27/1920Kanhaiyalal Bhagwandas Harjal, educationist, was born at Mohpa, Maharashtra.
11/27/1920Akbar himself left Agra.
9/17/1876Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was born in Debanandpur village.
9/17/1876Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born.
4/4/1997World Bank Atlas for 1997 put India as world's fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity estimated around $1318 trillion.