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Historical Event on 10/14/1980

S. N. Banerjee, cricketer--one Test for India and 249 runs 10th wkt stand on tour, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/9/1961Kotamaraju Rama Rao, famous journalist, passed away.
7/12/1896Dangambarrao G. Bindu, politician and father of Hydrabad Liberation Party, was born.
10/30/1994Swaran Singh, 87, former External Affairs minister, died.
5/13/1962Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963)
8/22/1922Alluri Seetaram Raju inspired and organised the tribals to wage a war against the British. Raju's army raided Chintapalli police station and there was regular warfare between him and the British forces.
4/1/1992ESI ceiling of Rs. 3000 comes into effect.
2/24/1988Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
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.
12/10/1878Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur was born at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'.
1/8/1890Ramchandra Varma, renowned editor, was born. He also has the credit in making the Hindi Dictionary.