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Historical Event on 2/14/1996

President dedicates 55,000-seated Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium at Kochi to the nation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/4/1966ndo-Pak Summit, the peace talk between Pakistan and Indian leaders, started at Tashkent. The prominent personalities were Lal Bahadur Shastri and Gen. Ayub Khan.
7/17/1976Mudliyar A. Ramaswami, Padmabhushan awardee, politician and industrialist, passed away.
4/15/1794Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.
4/26/1995Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.
7/25/1988Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
2/12/1882Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born.
7/5/1993Air Marshal Swarup Krishna Kaul appointed Chief of Air Staff.
1/22/1993A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off.
6/22/1975National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced.
3/22/1991President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament.