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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
6/20/1756A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.
4/17/1946Bellary Raghava, famous actor, social worker, lawyer and dramatist, passed away.
5/10/198559 were killed and 150 wounded in Sikh attacks.
8/20/1991Sivarasan and Subha, the main suspects in Rajiv Gandhi case, commit suicide in Bangalore.
9/25/1997India clinches the Red & White Latif Masters International Snooker title in Karachi.
9/27/1958Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais.
8/18/1800Fort William College was established at Calcutta.
6/13/1940Revolutionary leader Udham Singh was hanged for charges of assassinating Micheal Odair, who was the Governor General of Punjab at the time of Jalianwala Baug massacre.
2/28/1937Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit.
2/20/1928Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born.