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Historical Event on 8/14/1996

Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/24/1956Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated.
9/12/1905Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London.
11/7/1974South Africa beats India in Women's Open in 63rd Tennis Davis Cup.
9/18/1972India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
7/20/1916Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai.
7/26/1922Girilal Jain, famous journalist and editor, was born.
12/15/195760 Harijans enter the Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi.
12/28/1996India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in the first innings of the game.
11/27/1962Britain agreed to supply arms to India.