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Historical Event on 7/14/1999

Arvind Dave is appointed Governor of Arunachal Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/5/1984Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.
10/12/1860Sir Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, passed away at the age of 73.
6/21/1862Ganendra Mohan Tagore was the first Indian to get the Barrister-at-Law Degree after passing the examination from Lincoln Inn University.
11/3/1990Manmohan Krishna, famous film actor, passed away.
5/1/1995SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent.
4/8/2000Air India wins the Rani of Jhansi women's cricket tournament in Chennai.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
4/16/1959Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning.
9/21/1994Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat.
6/2/1900Sri Ram Sharma Acharya, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, passed away.