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Historical Event on 7/14/1969

85 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/19/1938Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, great Indian space scientist and mathematician, was born at Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
11/3/1991India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested.
8/7/1905The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
4/4/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, inaugurates Samvidhan.com, a website about the Constitution. The site is a part of the Hindi portal, Webdunia.com.
1/21/1908Gandhiji agrees to settlement on basis of voluntary registration, if Registration Act is repealed.
2/22/1845Serampore of Hooghly district and Balasore cities from Dutch purchased East Indian Company.
2/17/1997Notorious criminal Charles Sobhraj released from jail after 20 years, and re-arrested soon after release under Foreigners' Regional Registration Act.
8/27/1976Major-General (Kumari) Gertude Ali Ram, the first women General in Indian Army, was appointed as the first Director of Military Nursing Services at the Army Headquarters.
1/20/1959Tej Bahadur Sapru passed away.
1/18/1990Farooq Abdullah, J&K CM, quits.