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14-June-1880

Satish Chandra Dasgupta, rural Scientist, was born.

14-June-1886

Orphanage for little girls was established.

14-June-1905

Smt. Hirabai Barodekar, famous veteran Maharashtrian classical singer, was born.

14-June-1929

Jatindra Nath Das was arrested in Calcutta.

14-June-1947

Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.

14-June-1958

Dr. C.V. Raman receives the Lenin Peace Prize in Kremlin.

14-June-1961

Sir Karyamanikkam Shrinivas Krishnan died.

14-June-1985

M.C. Sharma was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 10-12-1985.

14-June-1987

Rajiv Gandhi, PM, rules out termination of Rs. 1700 crore Bofors gun deal.

14-June-1990

Veerendra Verma sworn in as the new Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh.

14-June-1991

Punjab was declared "disturbed area"; army deployed.

14-June-1992

Tin Bigha activists lathi-charged in the Tin Bigha corridor in Coochbehar.

14-June-1995

RBI announces the introduction of appointing ombudsmen to redress grievances and disputes of bank customers.

14-June-1996

CBI grills PV Prabhakar Rao, son of former PM, for his involvement in the Rs. 133 crore NFL urea import scandal.

14-June-1997

India expresses regret over "inadvertent intrusion" of IAF helicopter into Bangladesh territory.

14-June-1997

Rajya Sabha chairman recognises split in AIADMK parliamentary party and designates Jayalalitha-led AIADMK as AIADMK(I) and Thirunavukkarasu group as AIADMK(II).

14-June-1998

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

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