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Historical Event on 5/14/1999

Gurucharan Singh Tohra is expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/29/1992Ramesh Krishnan and Leander Paes put India into the World round of 16 nations in the Davis Cup tennis by defeating Britain (4-1)
2/15/1945Indian troops capture Pagan at Burma.
9/16/2000Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
9/21/1995Rumors that statues of the Hindu god Ganesh were drinking milk spread in New Delhi.
5/13/1923Moinul Haque Choudhury, social reformer and politician, was born at Sonabarighat (Assam).
1/1/1950Inauguration of National Chemical Laboratory at Mumbai.
11/30/1915Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telgu poet, died.
10/26/1930Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay.
7/4/1997Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls.
6/4/1972First Environment Day.