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Historical Event on 5/14/1994

LTTE banned for the second time under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/1929Devendra 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.
2/19/1992Shridhar Narayan Bendre, famous painter, passed away.
8/11/2000Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.
10/1/1958Metric System of weights was introduced in India.
11/16/1921Nearly 700 Mopalh rebels were killed by the Gurkhas as they attacked the Pandikkad post at Delhi.
11/23/1908Durga Das, famous social reformer and journalist, was born.
4/24/1973Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay.
3/22/2000INSAT-3B launched.
11/22/1988Baba Amte wins U.N. Human Rights Award.
4/3/1984Sikh terrorists kill a member of Parliament in his home in New Delhi.