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Historical Event on 8/14/1987
Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/11/1832 | British Parliament finally rejected to remove the appeal of Hindus puritans against Sutee abolition, as demanded by tradional orthodox Indians. |
| 6/19/1997 | Indian Prime Minister and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, spoke for first time on restored hotline, to reiterate their committment to comprehensive dialogue, including Kashmir. |
| 10/17/1994 | Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies. |
| 9/19/1997 | Ambar Roy, Indian test batsman (1969-70), died in Calcutta. |
| 8/13/1951 | First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India. |
| 9/19/1950 | U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York. |
| 4/15/1926 | Gurvel Singh Pannu, famous Hindi writer, was born in Lauhka, Punjab. |
| 1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
| 12/4/1989 | Hardeo Joshi replaces Shiv Charan Mathur as CM of Rajasthan. |
| 9/29/2000 | A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt. |
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