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Historical Event on 1/14/1948
First issue of Marathi daily newspaper 'Loksatta' was published.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/14/1948 | Muhammad Tughluq Shah II passed away at Sindh. |
| 9/10/1923 | Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away. |
| 6/26/1975 | Chaudhary Charan Singh, freedom fighter and Chief Minister of UP, arrested by British Government. |
| 3/21/1976 | The Indian people have delivered a stinging rebuke to the woman who had ruled them without the benefit of a constitution for the past 19 months by dumping her from office in a landslide election. After 11 years of rule, Indira Gandhi has resigned, and in an uncharacteristically humble statement said she ""accepted the verdict unreservedly"" and promised ""constructive cooperation"" with the new government. The heads of the victorious parties immediately dropped the year-and-a-half-old state of emergency, freed political prisoners, and began negotiations over who would head the new government. |
| 3/13/1800 | Nana Phadanvis (Balaji Janardan Bhanu), veteran leader of Peshwa Kingdom, died. |
| 4/1/1979 | Central Institute of Fisheries Education came under the Administrative Control of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. |
| 11/18/1937 | 1,100 prisoners freed after appeal by Gandhi, his first political act in year. |
| 7/15/1903 | Kumaraswamy Kamraj, great freedom fighter, social reformer, political leader and member of the Lok Sabha, was born in a trading family at Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu. |
| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
| 1/24/1980 | E. K. Nayanar forms Government in Kerala. |
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