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Historical Event on 9/14/1997
78 persons die and around 250 are injured as four bogies of Ahmedabad-Howrah Express de-rail while crossing a bridge on Hasdeo river near Champa Railway Station in Bilaspur district, Madhya Pradesh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/26/1920 | Srinivas Ramanujam, famous Indian mathematician, passed away at Chetpet in Madras. |
| 9/12/1686 | Aurangzeb ended Adilshah's kingdom. The garrison lost heart and surrendered Sikandar who was sent to the state prison at Daulatabad. Bijapur was invested and the city opened its gates to the Mughals. Bijapur as an independent kingdom ceased to exist. |
| 7/16/1936 | Venkataraman Subramanya, cricketer (Indian bowler in nine Tests mid-60's, Leg Break Googly, Right Arm), was born in Bangalore. |
| 2/2/2000 | The Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry clears Ms. Deepa Mehta's film ''Water'' after the director agreed to make some changes in the script. |
| 1/23/1927 | Balasaheb Thackrey, Shiv Sena chief and Hindu Hriday Samrat, was born. |
| 4/16/1959 | Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning. |
| 10/5/1991 | Ramnath Goenka, journalist and founder chairman of the Indian Express Newspapers Group, died at the age of 87 years. |
| 8/15/1995 | P.V Narasimha Rao introduces the mid-day meal scheme for the primary school children under the Central Government Welfare Programme. |
| 11/14/1914 | Eight Language panel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note was red. These languages were Urdu, Telugu, Kaithi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Burmese and Gujarati. |
| 7/1/1955 | Imperial Bank of India was inaugurated and was renamed as State Bank of India. |
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