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Historical Event on 2/14/1891
Stephen Smith, greatest pioneer of air borne mail, was born at Strawberry Hill, Shillong, Assam.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/1/1995 | Aditya Birla, famous industrialist, died. |
| 7/20/1998 | Mr. Jaswant Singh, Prime Minister's special envoy, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott discuss nuclear non-proliferation and security-related issues in New Delhi. |
| 6/21/1940 | Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS), passed away. |
| 7/25/1997 | Laloo Yadav resigns as Bihar Chief Minister after CBI-designated court issues an arrest warrant against him in fodder scam case. His wife, Rabri Devi, is sworn in as his successor. She becomes first woman Chief Minister of the State. |
| 2/2/1965 | Government sanction was accorded to the Officers Training School for the start of Short Service Regular Commission. |
| 3/25/1898 | Swami Vivekanand accepted Sister Nivedita as his disciple. |
| 1/1/1978 | Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived. |
| 11/29/1989 | Rajiv Gandhi resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India. |
| 5/19/1911 | K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 6/8/1936 | Akashwani Radio was later changed into All India Radio (AIR) in 1958. |
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