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Historical Event on 2/14/1929
Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/28/1990 | President's rule imposed in Assam. Assembly kept in suspended animation. United Liberation Front of Assam and National Socialist Council of Nagaland banned. |
| 9/18/2000 | Prasar Bharati issues a notification making it compulsory for cable operators to telecast regional channels of Doordarshan on prime band, in addition to DD-1 and DD-2, in their respective states. |
| 2/1/1968 | United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi. |
| 2/27/1941 | Paddy Ashton, first leader of Britain's Social and Liberal Democrat Party, was born in New Delhi, India. |
| 5/24/1903 | Hemchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
| 3/17/1959 | Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet. |
| 12/5/1991 | 56 JD MLA's belonging to V.P. Singh faction elect a new leader in UP. |
| 2/11/1847 | Thomas Alva Edison, great scientist and inventor of electric light lamp, was born at Milan, Ohio. |
| 1/11/1613 | Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth. |
| 8/19/1976 | Nagarjun Sagar University established in Andhra Pradesh. |
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