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Historical Event on 12/14/1968

Chaggan Baba (Chagganlal Karamshi Parekh), great social worker and founder of Mahila Griha Udyog and Lijjat Papad, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/19/1997Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta.
4/15/1947Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace.
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
8/1/1988Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991.
2/13/1936Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai.
5/7/1861Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta.
7/23/1903Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903
3/5/1916Biju Patnaik, famous Oriya leader and Chief Minister, was born.
6/1/1930First Indian luxurious fast train 'Deccan Queen' started from Victoria Terminus (CST) to Pune.
2/19/1855U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born.