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Historical Event on 11/14/1957

Children's Day.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/8/1933Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables.
4/4/1905More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping.
12/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi was sworn is as the 6th Prime Minister of India. He succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi. He became the Prime Minister of India for a second time and first time after elections.
11/16/1990Chandrasekhar Government wins confidence motion of 280 for 214 against and 11 abstained (17 members were absent).
3/12/1993Powerful bomb blasts at twelve various places in Mumbai takes 317 lives.
11/1/1996Three national parties (Indira Congress, Janata Party and Samata Party) to lose their recognition as national parties as they failed to get the minimum required support in the general election to the 11th Lok Sabha.
11/29/1959Govind Sakharam Serdesai, Jagirdar Raobahadur, passed away.
4/13/1984India beat Pak by 58 runs to win the first Cricket Asia Cup in Sharjah.
5/4/1932Many are arrested as Congress agents picket Bombay post offices in celebration of Gandhi Day.
4/30/1992Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes.