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Historical Event on 4/14/1962

Sir Mokshagundam Vivesvaraya, father of modern engineering, passed away at the age of 102. He was receipent of ""Bharat Ratna"" Award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/4/1996Delhi court issues non-bailable warrant against PVN Rao and three others in the St. Kitts forgery case.
11/29/1989Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party
3/13/1996Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final.
12/3/1971During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began.
1/30/1999Gopinath Bordoloi was awarded the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, The Highest Civilian Award in India. 1999.
4/1/1962Metric weights became compulsory as New Weights and Measurements Metric system was intoduced by Indian Government.
7/7/197378 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India).
1/4/1954Judge Mehr Chand Mahajan became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 22/12/1954.
2/16/1905Padmabhushan Aliyawar Jang, former Governor of Maharashtra, was born.
1/15/2000Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan.