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Historical Event on 8/14/1998
The Government transferred Revenue Secretary N. K. Singh and Finance Secretary Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/24/1966 | Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay. |
| 10/26/1950 | Mother Teresa founded Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India. |
| 11/1/1999 | Soli Sorbajee is re-appointed the Attorney General. |
| 1/1/1891 | Sampurnanand, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born. |
| 2/13/1991 | Muslim League leaves the UDF in Kerala. |
| 2/13/1991 | Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies. |
| 5/22/1940 | Erapalli Anantrao Srinivasarao Prasanna, cricketer (one of India's big four spinners, Right-arm Off-break Bowler), was born at Bangalore. He is also the receipent of Arjun Award (1968) and Padmashree (1970). |
| 11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
| 5/8/1959 | Dalai Lama will not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China. |
| 4/26/1990 | V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh. |
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