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Historical Event on 2/14/1929

Devendra 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.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/13/1991Surjit Singh Barnala resigns as Governor of Tamil Nadu.
3/18/1992Shreyanprasad Jain, famous philanthropist and industrialist, passed away.
10/16/1997Queen Elizabeth visits Kalakshetra where she witnesses Bharatanatyam show and film shooting at MGR Film City, Taramani in Chennai. She also goes to Kancheepuram and Sriperumbudur (Rajiv Gandhi memorial).
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
7/26/1991Tamil Nadu and Karnataka observe bandh over Cauvery water issue.
10/14/1989Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party.
6/18/1992Congress (I) chooses Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma as Presidential candidate.
9/27/1989Hemanta Kumar Mukherjee, noted playback singer and music director, died.
6/11/2000Rajesh Pilot, Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister, died in a road accident in his home constituency, Dausa.
7/13/1999Militants attack the residential complex of Border Security Force (BSF) in Madar village near Bandipur and take 12 persons as hostages after killing four.