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Historical Event on 5/14/1956
Govt announces that decimal coinage will be introduced in India from April 1, 1957.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/9/1965 | After Indo-Pak conflict of 1965, the Raksha Medal, Samar Seva Star and some others were introduced. |
| 3/24/1987 | First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching. |
| 5/31/1891 | Buddhagaya Mahabodhi Society, an organization to encourage Buddhist studies in India and abroad, was established by a Buddhist monk Anagarika Dharmapala. |
| 5/31/1891 | Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619. |
| 7/14/1856 | Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, great social worker, was born. |
| 6/19/1996 | Kerala LDF govt. decides to reopen the ISRO espionage case, which was closed by the CBI. |
| 3/15/1908 | Police shoot four people in rioting. |
| 4/16/1992 | Arjun Singh, Pawar, Antony win CWC polls. |
| 1/16/1996 | Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership. |
| 10/1/1847 | Annie Besant, famous philosopher and thesophist, was born in London. |
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