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Historical Event on 4/14/1916

Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari, cricketer (India 1947-48), was born at Mamandur, Tamil Nadu.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/31/1984Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.'
10/14/199210 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah.
2/11/1906Daily Tribune' started its printing from Lahore.
9/5/1872V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu.
6/10/1890Sunday introduced as a weekly holiday.
1/9/1982A group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim started for the first ever Antarctica expedition on December 1981 - Jan 1982.
11/6/1993First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly.
6/20/1993Harshad Mehta's senior counsel Ram Jethmalani asks JPC to summon the PM and allow cross-examination.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
2/27/1997CBI arrests godman Chandraswami for alleged offences in violation of Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 1976.