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Historical Event on 1/14/1926

Mahashweta Devi was born at Jinda Bahar Lane, Dhaka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/12/1960783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi.
12/7/1992Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shooted and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha.
3/3/1978Origin of Saka Era (India).
8/10/1982Memorial of 201 martyrs from Maharashtra inaugurated.
4/22/1998India and Bangladesh resolve to work together to ''root out terrorism'', push bilateral trade and harness river waters of the region.
8/10/1988Ramakrishna Hegde resigns as CM of Karnataka on moral grounds in connection with phone tapping issue.
9/29/1932Hamid Dalwai, Muslim social reformer, was born.
2/16/1980The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898.
2/27/1996Suresh Kalmadi, Minister of State for Railways, presents vote-on-account railway budget; 1995-96 Economic Survey shows 6.3\% growth in GDP; 20\% interim relief for newspaper employees announced by govt.
3/16/1995K. Karunakaran resigns as CM of Kerala; Finance Minister presents Central Budget.