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Historical Event on 5/14/1998
India will not sign CTBT unconditionally, says the Prime Minister.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1973 | India starts a drive to save tigers from extinction. |
| 2/13/1601 | John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London. |
| 3/18/1916 | Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay. |
| 1/21/1978 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer, poet, editor of 'Dainik Batori', journalist and lawyer, passed away. He participated in the Quit India Movement for which he was arrested. |
| 7/25/1813 | First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed. |
| 8/25/1963 | Allama Mashriqi, Muslim leader, passed away. |
| 11/9/1948 | Administration of Mayurbhanj State taken over by the Government of India. |
| 11/5/1920 | Indian Red Cross society was founded in India under Bengal Act VIII. St.John Ambulance Association is a wing of this societywhich directed Improvement of Health, Prevention of Diseases and Mitigation of Suffering activities. |
| 3/22/1793 | Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year. |
| 7/5/1917 | 'Hindumashinary Society' was established by Gajanan Bhaskar Vaidya. |
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