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Historical Event on 8/14/1987
Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/19/1907	Acharya Hajariprasad Dwivedi was born.
7/22/1978	Indira Gandhi charged with criminal misconduct during 1977 campaign.
11/26/1949	Constitution of India was adopted
12/1/1999	Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, is named ""`Woman of the Millennium'' in a BBC pol
5/19/1904	Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
1/20/1817	Ram Mohun Roy started Hindu College in Calcutta with the help of Justice H. East David Hare. This college was later renamed as the Presidency College.
4/29/1957	The National Civil Defence College was founded at Nagpur as the Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI). It functions as the training wing of the Emergency Relief Organisation of the Government of India.
12/8/1930	British Gen. Norman Simpson shot at desk by Indian nationalists.
10/21/1997	Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet.
2/18/1983	Violence between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Singhalese in Sri Lanka marks beginning of Tamil rebellion by Tiger freedom fighters demanding an independent nation called Eelam. Prolonged civil war results.

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Historical Event on 8/14/1987 Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour.

Historical Event on 8/14/1987
Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour.