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Historical Event on 8/14/1968
Pravin Kalyan Amre, cricketer (Indian batsman, century on Test debut 1992), was born in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/27/1978 | Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland. |
| 8/22/1988 | Gorkha National Liberation Front signs an accord with the Centre and West Bengal on formation of an elective hill Council for Darjeeling. |
| 11/7/2000 | Indrajit Bhalotia wins the Wills Southern Open golf tournament. |
| 4/11/1993 | Laxmanrao Madhav Bhide, senior freedom fighter and history expert, passed away. |
| 6/4/1987 | A Swedish Government enquiry finds that Bofors paid commission to middlemen for concluding Arms Purchase Agreement with India. |
| 12/1/1955 | Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech condemning British colonialism. |
| 2/18/1998 | C. Subramaniam, former Maharashtra Governor, is awarded Bharat Ratna. |
| 3/11/1915 | Vijay Samuel Hazare, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54), was born in Sangli, Maharashtra. |
| 2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
| 6/12/1970 | Gopinath Kaviraj, Padmavibhushan awardee and critic, passed away. |
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