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Historical Event on 9/14/1971

Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/10/1755Narayanrao Peshwa was born.
8/9/1952New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.
7/3/1985Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1988.
8/2/2000The Lok Sabha performs a ''hat-trick'' by setting off the process for the creation of three new states by passing the Jharkhand Bill.
2/20/1987Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh becomes the 23rd and 24th states of Indian Union.
7/13/1930Swarup Kishan Reu, cricket test umpire for 17 tests from 1978-85, was born in Delhi and was honoured by Padmashree in 1986. He joins the record of umpiring most Tests for India.
2/10/1859General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
6/26/1906M.P. Sivagnanam, famous Tamil writer and social worker, was born at Madras.
8/20/1991India's Ambassador to Romania J.F.Ribeiro shot by Sikh extremists in Bucharest.