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Historical Event on 11/14/1997

N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/14/1773Amstored Lord William Piet, governor, was born.
4/2/1994Ravi Naik sworn in CM.
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.
1/18/1842Mahadev Govind Ranade was born. He was the chief architect of Bombay Prathana Samaj.
8/10/1989Panchayatraj' and 'Nagarpalika' bills were passed in Parliament's Lok Sabha.
1/16/1941Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born.
4/17/1675Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj attacked the Fonda fort and won Karwar.
1/21/2000The Samata Party National Executive elects Mrs. Jaya Jaitley as its president.
4/10/1937Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away.
8/12/1919Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, the father of Indian space technology and scientist, was born at Ahmedabad.