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Historical Event on 4/14/1944

Blast in ammunition loaded on 1,318 tonned freighter 'S. S. Fort Stikine' which was anchored in Victoria Dock at Bombay. The explosion killed 1376 people, wrecking 27 ships and destroying 40,000 tons of food.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/19/1967Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light.
1/23/1993British PM John Major arrives in India on an official visit.
1/19/1997Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad arrives in India on a 4-day visit.
1/19/1997Akbar himself left Agra.
1/23/1997Statue of Subhash Bose unveiled inside Parliament House.
6/27/1906Establishment of `Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad'.
8/10/1982Memorial of 201 martyrs from Maharashtra inaugurated.
9/16/1967Tibetan, Indian and Chinese troops engage in fighting at Natu La pass on the Tibet-Sikkim border.
6/25/1998Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities.
11/21/1962India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India.