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Historical Event on 5/14/1993
Bombay High Court upholds Goa C.M. Ravi Naik's disqualification by speaker under anti-defection bill.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/6/1992 | 300,000 Hindus destroy the mosque of Babri at Ayodhya, India. 4 die and BJP government in UP, led by Kalyan Singh, was dismissed and President's rule promulgated. Then countrywide riots followed. Pakistan and Bangladesh condemned demolition. |
7/12/1996 | Bail granted to Harshad Mehta, prime accused in the securities scam. |
1/1/1995 | Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi. |
9/20/1856 | Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste. |
4/16/1918 | Spike Milligan, famous actor and comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers), was born in India. |
4/28/1993 | Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen. |
8/11/1984 | A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud. |
12/19/1988 | Umashankar Joshi, Gyanpeeth awardee and Gujrathi poet, died. |
11/19/1996 | Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist and diplomat, passed away at 90. |
5/20/1992 | V. Prabhakaran, LTTE supremo, heads the list of 41 accused in the SIT chargesheet. |
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