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Historical Event on 9/14/1997
Fire and explosions devastate terminals and storage tanks at Visakh Refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. Toll put at 51.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/22/1885 | Jatindra Mohan Sen Gupta, great nationalist leader, was born. |
| 7/27/1998 | B. B. Lyngdoh is sworn in Meghalaya Chief Minister. |
| 10/26/1952 | Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts . |
| 2/14/1925 | Mohan Dhariya, politician and nature lover, was born. |
| 4/21/1995 | Medium range 'Akash', surface-to-air-missile, flight trial successful. |
| 5/11/1999 | Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence on four of the 26 accused, life imprisionment to three and acquitted the remaining 19 people. |
| 3/20/1959 | For the first time, officials of the Indian government confirmed reports of widespread resistance to the Chinese occupying forces in Tibet. Open warfare erupted in the capital city of Lhasa. |
| 4/18/1978 | Sardar Sobha Singh, famous builder of modern New Delhi, passed away at the age of 90. |
| 5/15/1878 | Sivnath Shastri and Ananda Mohan Bose, under the leadership of the younger group of Brahmo Sama, rebelled and started Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. |
| 8/9/1893 | Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family. |
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