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Historical Event on 2/14/1959

Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/13/1994Renowned environmentalist Maurice F. Strong chosen for the Jawaharlal Nehru International Understanding award for 1992.
8/17/1909Madanlal Dhingra, famous revolutionary, was hanged at Paintanville Jail for assassinating Wyle and Lal Kaka.
6/24/1990Defence scientists successfully test fired country's first third generation anti-tank missile 'NAG'.
7/6/1944Mahatama Gandhi was for the first time addressed as 'Father of Nation'.
1/24/1958First international Film Festival started in Mumbai.
11/23/1926Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born.
9/16/1996First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto.
1/14/1927M. Aram, famous Hindi writer and educationist, was born in Kulasekharapatnam at Madras.
11/29/1959Govind Sakharam Serdesai, Jagirdar Raobahadur, passed away.
1/14/1998Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College.