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Historical Event on 10/14/1999

Sheikh Shamim, an Indian, is hanged for espionage in Pakistan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/12/1885Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born.
1/26/1981Vayudoot air service started with a flight of a F27, from Guwahati airport. This is the third Indian airline inaugurated.
9/4/19676.5 earthquake at Koyna Dam in Maharashtra kills 200 people.
4/1/1987Bureau of Indian Standards was changed to Indian Standards Institution.
10/2/1994Five die of pneumonic plague in Delhi. Surat toll rose to 47.
12/19/1952Nehru announces the Government's decision for establishing an Andhra State, constituting Telugu speaking areas of the State of Madras, excluding the city.
4/4/1942Japanese Navy destroyed 3 British battleship to sink in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War.
5/9/1866Gopal Krishna Gokhale, freedom fighter and political leader, was born in Kotluk village of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
4/18/1930Surya Sen alias Masterda attacked on Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army.
11/11/2000Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985.