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Historical Event on 4/14/1995

India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/1997Gopi Chand and P.V.V. Lakshmi retain individual titles and India takes team titles in SAARC badminton in Colombo.
3/24/1987First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.
5/7/1907Rajbali Pandey, famous poet, was born.
2/17/1918S. V. Kumaraswamy, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1961-62, was born at Tamil Nadu.
2/8/1967Indira Gandhi was hit in face by a stone while addressing crowd.
9/13/1997Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites.
10/2/1986Rajiv Gandhi survives assassination attempt made by Sikh extremists at Raj Ghat.
4/5/1993The Left and Democratic Front earns two third majority at the Tripura Assembly elections.
12/1/1970T. Swaminathan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 02-11-1972
5/21/1984Army moves in after 114 die in religious strife at Bomay.