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Historical Event on 2/14/2000

The Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court judgment quashing the State Government's Ashraya scheme for providing plots to the poor.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1897Dr. Amarnath Jha, educationist, was born.
9/21/1994Ramkrishna Bajaj, freedom fighter and veteran industrialist, passed away.
5/7/2000Ranjit Singh Gill, one of the prime accused in the murder of Lalit Maken and his wife Geetanjali, who was the daughter of the late President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, on July 31, 1985, was extradited to Delhi from the US to stand trial in the case.
3/25/199631st Gyanpith award presented to M.T. Vasudevan Nair at Trivandrum by Dr. Karan Singh.
10/11/1994Molly Chacko at Hiroshima sets record for 3000m (Women) in 9.06.42.
9/15/1909Thiru Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, ''Anna'', founder of DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, also an editor, writer, orator and patriot, was born in a weaver community of Kanchipuram.
4/10/1997Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.
7/12/1970Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
11/27/1972Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan.
1/16/1990All Governors asked to resign.