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Historical Event on 10/14/1991

Prasannakumar Abhyankar, senior journalist, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/7/2000A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam.
11/12/1885Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born.
6/20/1756A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.
8/17/1986In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".
7/20/1993Chander Mohan, son of Haryana CM Bhajanlal, wins the by-elections in the Kalka assembly constitutency by a margin of 61,800 votes.
2/24/1996Naresh Chandra appointed India's ambassador to USA.
5/12/1998Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT.
3/17/1982President's rule in Kerala.
11/20/1946Gandhiji starts tour without party.
7/6/1942Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter and editor of ""Janma Bhoomi"", died due to non-medical facility and mal-nutrition in Jail. She has also written ""Karagaar Ke Anubhav"" in 1930. She was arrested for Satyagrah and forcefully closing of Foreign Goods.