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Historical Event on 11/14/1997
10th International Film Festival for children and young people ambles into Hyderabad atop Gajju, the delightful elephant mascot. About 125 films from 30 countries will be screened.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/13/1988 | Mother Teresa asks Margret Thatcher for help to set up a hostel for London's elderly homeless in UK. |
| 7/9/1969 | India accepted 'Royal Bengal Tiger' as its National Animal, as recommended by the Indian Wild life Board. This Tiger is also known as the majestic tiger - panthere tigris (Linnaeus). |
| 2/16/1927 | Rail service started between India and Nepal. |
| 11/16/1999 | Suraj Bhan, Bihar Governor, dismisses the Horticulture and Weights and Measurements Minister Samrat Chaudhary in the Rabri Devi cabinet for being 'underaged'. |
| 3/28/1917 | Umesh Chandra Panigrahi, great author and journalist, was born at Raruan, Orissa. |
| 5/21/1990 | Moelvi Muhammad Farouk, great Indian spiritual leader, was murdered. |
| 5/21/1990 | Saint Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest, Spanish missionary teaching in India and Japan, was born in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre. |
| 10/19/1689 | Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals. |
| 12/12/1971 | The first aerial victory was when MiG-21FLs of No. 47 Squadron shot down a PAF F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch and this was followed by three more victories in quick succession on 17 December, when MiG-21FLs of No. 29 Squadron escorting HF-24 Maruts, shot down intercepting F-104s near Uttarlai in the Rajasthan desert in gun-missile encounters, while a third F-104, on an intruding mission, was shot down by another MiG 21FL of No.29 Squadron. |
| 2/27/1990 | Polls in Pondicherry and eight states. |
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