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Historical Event on 2/14/1994

The controversial Supreme Court Judge V.Ramaswami, who survived an impeachment motion in Parliament, retires.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/13/1992Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away.
9/1/1947Indian Standard Time was adopted.
11/12/1781Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops.
3/25/1954The first helicopter S-55 arrived ferried to Delhi. The Indian Air Force experience with rotary wing aircraft. It was indeed a 'red letter day' in the history of IAF a befitting gift on its coming of age ' when the first helicopter wearing IAF markings appeared at Palam in the form of a Sikorsky, S-55. Such a swift action, complete involvement and dedication on the part of the crew and technicians was the clear indication of the standards with which One-O-Four set about its tasks for others to emulate.
5/1/1983V. N. Swamy, pace bowler without distinction in one Test for India, passed away.
11/28/1956Chou En- lai, Chinese Prime Minister, came to India.
2/20/1928Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born.
10/1/1959Hon'ble Judge Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 31/01/1964.
2/19/200018 people die following a fire on the Ferozepur-bound 2137-down Punjab Mail between Dushkeda and Savada stations near Bhusaval, about 433 km from Mumbai.
4/14/1998Kushabhau Thakre is declared elected BJP president.