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Historical Event on 9/14/1774

Bentik, first Governor General of India, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/27/1972Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore.
3/23/1986The first women's company of Central Reserve Police Force camp was raised in Durgapur.
3/23/1986The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali.
11/24/1919Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi.
2/5/1922Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc.
3/12/1992The four-member break-away group of Telugu Desam recognised by Lok Sabha speaker.
5/18/1945Bhagwat Subramaniam Chandrasekhar, cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79), was born in Banglore. He received Arjun Award and Padmashree awards in 1972.
7/4/1992Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh.
1/23/1992India becomes ASEAN dialogue partner.
3/17/1997A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.