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Historical Event on 2/14/1996

President dedicates 55,000-seated Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium at Kochi to the nation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/9/199881 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone.
4/20/1993Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade.
7/14/1997Eleventh Presidential election with K.R.Narayanan and T.N. Seshan as candidates; 732 out of 775 MPs and 3893 out of 4058 MLAs cast their ballots.
7/1/1930Vinodkumar C. Gupta, leader in Maharashtra, was born.
1/28/1950Supreme Court of India was inaugurated.
9/9/1991Gold ornaments pledged by the Goans to the Portugese bank returned to owners.
12/11/1958Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship.
7/15/1986India protests against China's intrusion of six to seven km into the Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh.
8/7/1871Abanindranath Tagore, great modern artist and painter, was born at Jorasanko in Calcutta.
4/8/1950Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact.