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Historical Event on 1/14/1989

'Poorna Kumbh', India's largest religious gathering held once in 12 years, begins at Allahabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/3/1978Chandrasekar takes 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win.
10/15/1686Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi's era.
2/26/1976V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.
3/24/1990Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was withdrawn in toto from the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.
1/8/1884Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.
2/23/1993Noted Hindi poet Naresh Mehta wins Gyanpith Award.
2/3/1925First Electric Train started its journey from Bombay V. T. (presently known as C.S.T.) to Kurla. This train was on the Central Railway, Bombay.
1/15/1918K.C.D. Brahaspati, great poet, playwright and orientalist, was born at Rampur, UP.
6/23/1810Duncan Dock of Bombay was completed.
5/11/1985Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence.