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Historical Event on 6/14/1998

S. Vijayalakshmi wins National women's `A' chess title in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/20/1878Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated.
6/1/1933Fortnightly 'Bal Sanmitra' was published.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
4/19/1976Maharshi Dayanand University established in Haryana.
5/19/1990S. R. Bommai unanimously elected President of JD.
4/11/1992Marathi cinema's Bhaichandra Govind Pendharkar gets Phalke Award.
9/3/1953Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away.
4/11/1942All-India Congress party rejects British offer of dominion status at New Delhi.
1/9/1915Gandhiji reached Bombay on his return from South Africa. He became a member of the Indian National Congress. He was awarded Kaiseri-e-Hind Gold Medal for Ambulance service on Jan, 11.
10/27/1992Veerappa Moily, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, resigned from Bangarappa Government in Karnataka.