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Historical Event on 11/14/1914

Eight Language panel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note was red. These languages were Urdu, Telugu, Kaithi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Burmese and Gujarati.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1958Metric System of weights was introduced in India.
1/31/1948Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder.
4/28/1952The war between Japan and India ended.
3/24/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
5/25/1996DMK-led coalition ministry headed by R.V. Janakiraman sworn in Pondicherry.
9/3/1994The government decides to disinvest government holding in 21 Public Sector Units including ITI, IOC and ITDC.
11/22/1999V. S. Rama Devi and Vishnu Kant Shastri appointed the new Governors of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh.
5/17/1991Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away.
1/16/1948Pakistan charges India with systematic campaign to wipe out Muslims.