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Historical Event on 1/14/1994

C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1887Pandit Hridaynath Ajudhianath Kunzru, politician and social worker, was born at Agra.
8/20/1915Devraj Ars, former chief minister of Karnataka, was born.
12/20/1904Virendranarayan Chakravorthy, former Indian Ambassador in England and Governor of Haryana, was born.
11/11/1973India's first International Philatelic Exihibition started in New Delhi.
5/9/1992Killer brew claims 175 lives in Orissa, Excise Minister Prasanna Kumar Acharya resigns.
12/3/1971Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies.
10/5/1997Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to become an astronaut. (year 1997 or Oct. 5, 1998)
6/5/1975Ramsing, great freedom fighter and editor of `Navyug Patrika', passed away.
8/8/1968Abey Kuruvila, cricketer (promising Bombay fast bowler), was born in Mannar.
6/19/1901Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences.