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Historical Event on 5/14/1996

H.D. Deve Gowda elected leader of the third front as its prime ministerial candidate.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/14/1996Saint Namdev passed away.
2/23/1969Madhubala, famous Hindi film actress, passed away.
1/26/1988A Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the Goa Postal Division. (11-7-89).
3/3/1931Gandhi and Viceroy Irwin sign Delhi Pact giving Indians right to make salt if civil disobedience stops.
6/20/1992The JD and the NF choose former Lok Sabha Dy Speaker Prof. G. G. Swell as the Presidential candidate.
1/19/1905Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali writer and thinker, passed away.
6/1/1959National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL) set up under CSIR with temporary offices in New Delhi. Dr. P. Nilakantan is appointed NARL's first Director.
10/26/1934Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.
6/24/1966Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die.
12/19/2000A massive blaze guts Mehboob Studio, one of the oldest in Mumbai city.