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Historical Event on 8/14/1996
Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/30/1928 | Jawaharlal Nehru lays his plans for a free India and becomes president of Congress Party in 1929. |
| 5/11/1930 | Ganesh Narayan R, great Industrialist, was born. |
| 12/30/1929 | The first inland Indian air mail left New Delhi this morning for Jodhpur, Hyderabad, and Karachi to connect at Karachi with the air service to London. |
| 7/20/1903 | British to increase size of Royal Army in India. |
| 1/3/1945 | No. 8 Squadron becomes the first to convert onto the Spitfire VIII during the previous month and commencing operations on 3 January 1945 in the Kangaw area. |
| 6/19/1931 | Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa. |
| 1/15/1977 | Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui, modern Urdu writer, passed away. |
| 8/2/1959 | Little Theatre was established. |
| 2/1/1944 | Arun Tikekar, editor and writer, was born. |
| 2/5/1986 | Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away. |
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