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Historical Event on 10/14/1991

Prasannakumar Abhyankar, senior journalist, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/9/1892Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, was born.
7/29/1997Rabri Devi inducts 60 ministers, including 22 of cabinet rank, thus raising strength of her Council of Ministers to 74.
8/20/1969Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India.
4/21/1998The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated.
2/13/1991Surjit Singh Barnala resigns as Governor of Tamil Nadu.
6/29/1992Congress (I) nominates K. R. Narayanan for the Vice-Presidentship.
10/17/1994Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies.
10/20/1774New Regulating Act was introduced which abolished the East India Company Government and a new Government was formed.
12/3/1971Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
9/25/2000A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.