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Historical Event on 7/14/1969

85 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/30/1991Uma Shankar Dixit (90) passed away.
3/21/1966Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P3) placed into polar orbit. This carries remote sensing payload and an X-ray astronomy payload. Launched by third developmental flight of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-D3) which is for launching 1,000-1,200 kg class of remote sensing satellites into polar sun-synchronous orbit. Still in service.
8/9/1925Government Treasury from Postal Train was looted near Kakuri Station just about 22 km. away from Lucknow by the members of 'Hindustan Socialist Republican Association'.
8/10/1942Manju Bala Patil was shot on the road at Mumbai by the British Police.
6/25/1994Dinsha Pirosha Madan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, died.
1/14/1982First Antarctic Expedition on December 1981-Jan 1982; group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim reached Antarctica successfully.
10/24/1997Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance.
5/4/1989Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, passed away.
8/15/1872Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)