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Historical Event on 7/14/1656

Guru Har Kishan, the eight Sikh, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1869Income Tax was imposed. On the same day New Indian Divorce Act came into operation.
3/13/1997H. D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister, presented the G. K. Reddy Memorial Award to Shekhar Gupta, Chief Editor of The Indian Express.
1/7/1987Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket. At 28, he was the youngest cricketer to accomplish this feat.
5/31/1987Daman and Diu to remain as union territories after Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
10/11/1923Harish Chandra was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. His work in a narrow branch of modern mathematics led to its developement to such an extent that it drew the attention of mathematicians all over the world.
9/15/1916Margaret Lockwood, film actress of 'Lady Vanishes' fame, was born in Karachi, India.
2/7/1922Britain threatens crackdown in India to combat Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign.
2/7/1922Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.
10/1/1993The two helicopters along with the first batch of fifteen personnel were ferried out in an AN-12 from Delhi to Mogadishu. The two helicopters were provided by 111 HU.
10/3/1988Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh after 30 months of being held captive.