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Historical Event on 12/14/1931
Viceroy of India issues new powers to seize properties of those who, following independence leader Gandhi, refuse to pay taxes.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/17/1932 | V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born. |
| 3/4/2000 | Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980. |
| 7/31/1940 | Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by the British Government in the Pantone Villa Jail, London. |
| 2/5/1992 | D.D. Lapang takes over as the new CM of Meghalaya. |
| 10/5/1997 | Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country. |
| 1/20/1993 | Captain Karamjeet Singh, first Pramveer Chakra Awardee, passed away. |
| 11/17/1999 | India beats New Zealand by seven wickets to win the one-day cricket series in New Delhi. Saurav Ganguly adjudged the 'man of the match' and 'man of the series'. |
| 6/1/1996 | H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in. |
| 9/26/1911 | Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal. |
| 2/19/1974 | Bombay High Oil stock was found in the sea near Mumbai. |
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