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Historical Event on 11/14/1997

N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/14/1997Eleventh Presidential election with K.R.Narayanan and T.N. Seshan as candidates; 732 out of 775 MPs and 3893 out of 4058 MLAs cast their ballots.
1/12/1924Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune.
12/21/1911Central Bank of India established.
2/1/1994PM Rao attends the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
6/1/1980AIADMK wins Tamil Nadu Assembly election; Congress (I) wins in U.P, M.P, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Maharashtra and Orissa.
12/28/1952Arun Jaitley, son of Maharaj Kishan Jaitley, was born in New Delhi.
5/1/1948Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.
9/27/1989The second test launching of India's surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi', from Sri Harikota was successful.
8/26/1874Ishwar Sharan Munshi, politician and philosopher, was born.
8/15/1949Chandernagore joins the Indian Union. Panchayati Raj inaugurated in 114,000 villages.