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Historical Event on 1/14/1882

Maharshi Raghunath Dhondo Karve, father of Family Planning and Sex Education, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/26/1997Andhra Pradesh Assembly passes a Bill to amend the Prohibition Act, ending the state's 2-year experiment with total prohibition.
5/31/1891Buddhagaya Mahabodhi Society, an organization to encourage Buddhist studies in India and abroad, was established by a Buddhist monk Anagarika Dharmapala.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
3/27/1993Hari Singh from Haryana hijacks an IA plane, but surrender after 8 hours.
3/30/1919Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act.
5/27/1964Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister and architect of modern India, passed away at the age of 74.
8/29/1993Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will.
12/24/1997Congress(I) splits in Bihar with Dr. Jagannath Mishra and Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav floating iits regional outfit, ""Bihar Jan Congress
1/24/1997Public holiday in connection with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose birth centenary.
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.