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Historical Event on 8/14/1968
Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/25/1990 | L. K. Advani, BJP President, starts his Somnath Temple, Ayodhya Rath Yathra. |
| 9/23/1858 | Grant Duf, historian who studied Maratha history, died. |
| 11/20/1993 | RBI clears two more private banks: The Times Bank Ltd. and the Indus Ind Bank Ltd. |
| 8/28/1879 | Battle at Ulundi, Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz. |
| 1/2/1905 | Jainendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist and patriot, was born. |
| 3/1/1908 | Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India. |
| 9/1/1934 | Suniti Kumar Ghosh, cricket test umpire for two tests from 1988-89, was born in Bengal. |
| 2/28/2000 | The Supreme Court orders notice to the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha, on a special leave petition filed by the State Government against the Madras High Court judgment upholding the trial court's order discharging her in the ""coal import case"". |
| 2/27/1941 | Paddy Ashton, first leader of Britain's Social and Liberal Democrat Party, was born in New Delhi, India. |
| 5/12/1998 | Yeltsin feels let down by the Indian nuclear tests but says that Indo-Russian ties will not be hit. |
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