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Historical Event on 10/14/1994

Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, researcher and historian, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/5/1846Sir Charles Metkaf, Governor General of East India Company, died.
9/5/1846Babur won the first Panipat battle and entered in North India's capital Agra.
5/13/1946Sarwate and Banerjee add 249 runs for the 10th wkt stand for Indians v Surrey.
9/10/1999Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final.
2/18/1993Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".
10/24/1934Arvindrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav scored 8 & 7 runs in one Test), was born in Bombay.
10/4/1972Raman Vijayan, Indian soccer (Football) player, was born in Kandramanikam at Pasumpon, Tamil Nadu.
9/30/1999Hindi writer Prof. Prem Shankar and Tamil scholar Ashokamitran selected for K.K. Birla Foundation Fellowships in comparative Indian literature.
7/15/1993Maninderjit Singh Bitta,Punjab Minister of State for Irrigation, appointed new Youth Cong (I) President.
3/1/1924Naresh Mehta was born.