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Historical Event on 2/14/2000
The Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court judgment quashing the State Government's Ashraya scheme for providing plots to the poor.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/14/2000 | Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak Dev, was born on Baisakhi in a Khatri family in Talwandi Rae Bhoe in Pakistan, known as Nankana Sahib. Guru Nanak's birthday has been traditionally celebrated on Katik Poornamashi. Althought the correct birth date has been established as Vaisakh 1 (April 14), it will continue to be celebrated on Katik Poornamashi until such time as it is changed to Vaisakh 1. (Most Sikhs in the present day consider themselves members of a separate religion.). |
| 8/2/1919 | Bharat Bhushan Agrawal, famous poet and winner of Sahitya Academy Award, was born. |
| 1/5/1994 | Jnanpith Award was given to U. R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada). |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence. |
| 11/6/1913 | Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of Indian Passive Resistance Movement, was arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa by British troops. |
| 10/26/1943 | Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta. |
| 9/3/1906 | Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'. |
| 12/24/1993 | Khanprabha Bhaduri, famous Bengali poet and writer, died. |
| 2/18/1974 | Daniel Moynihan, US ambassador to India, presents $2,046,700,000 cheque. |
| 5/5/1972 | Loknathan P. S., great economist, passed away. |
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