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Historical Event on 7/14/1997

Eleventh 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.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/4/1944Japanese attack Indian Seventh Army at Burma
2/15/1924Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar.
8/6/1965Indian troops invade Pakistan.
10/20/1962China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level.
2/21/1991Opposition boycotts the President's address as a protest against the dismissal of Tamil Nadu government.
7/23/1964Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away.
5/31/1988Dwarika Prasad Mishra, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, passed away.
5/21/1923Keshavrao Kothavle `Lalit', editor of monthly magazine, was born.
12/11/1998Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) died at 1850 hrs today.
12/5/1951Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away.