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Historical Event on 5/14/1956
Govt announces that decimal coinage will be introduced in India from April 1, 1957.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/7/2000 | The Delhi police unearth a multicrore cricket betting and match- fixing racket involving five South African cricketers, including the captain Hansie Cronje. A Delhi-based Indian operator Rajesh Kalra put behind bars. |
3/23/1923 | Shekh Mubarak Ali Ayaj, Sindhi litterateur, was born. |
4/17/1990 | Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people. |
8/27/1859 | Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, was born. |
1/29/1953 | Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated. |
4/1/2000 | Disinvestment not distress sell, says Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee at a conference of chief executives of PSUs in New Delhi. |
10/21/1916 | Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat. |
1/26/1919 | Mohammad Cazzambhoy Ibrahim Khan, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests India vs West Indies 1948-49), was born in Bombay. |
11/22/1967 | Tara Singh, freedom fighter, Akali Dal leader master and politician, died at Amritsar. |
7/25/1991 | Dr. V. K. R. V. Rao, famous economist and former central minister, passed away. |
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