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Historical Event on 4/14/1995
India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/8/1997 | Delhi High Court quashes charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy against L.K. Advani (BJP President), and former Union Minister V.C. Shukla in the Jain hawala case. |
| 2/2/1917 | Maharshi Vinayak Ramchandra Patwardhan (Annasaheb), collegue of Lokmanya Tilak, passed away. |
| 2/13/1945 | Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 9/21/1984 | National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources and National Institute of Animal Genetics were set up. These institutes were initially located in the campus of southern regional station of National Dairy Research Institute, Bangalore. They were then shifted to Karnal in July 1985. |
| 12/3/1998 | Maganbhai Kasundra, (50), Gujarat Minister, dies following a heart attack at his residence in Gandhinagar. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 6/26/1982 | First Boeing 707 of Air India `Gaurishankar' was crashed at Sahar Airport (Bombay). |
| 5/14/2000 | L. K. Advani, Union Home Minister, announces extension of the ban on the LTTE by two more years. |
| 11/27/1992 | Sachin Tendulkar, 19 years and 22 days old, becomes the youngest cricketer to make 1,000 test runs while playing in Johannesburg. |
| 3/4/1996 | Union govt. decides to set up a national grid for the distribution of petroleum products. |
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