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Historical Event on 8/14/1993
New governors for MP, Bihar, West Bengal & Tripura.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/8/1910 | Saint Shri Gajanan Maharaj died. |
| 3/9/1990 | Lalu Prasad Yadav to form JD Ministry in Bihar. |
| 8/12/1602 | Abul Fazal, Akbar's minister, was killed on the instructions of Jahangir. |
| 3/25/1928 | S. R. Kulkarni, leader of dock workers, was born. |
| 9/27/1977 | Sanjiva Reddy was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Government revokes the external emergency promulgated on December 3, 1971. |
| 10/15/1676 | King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay. |
| 6/4/1926 | Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax. |
| 1/8/1964 | Jack ""Murph the Surf"" Murphy, 27, and a companion were arrested in Miami as suspects in the theft of $410,000 rare gems from the American Museum of Natural History in October of last year. The world's largest sapphire, the Star of India, and eight of the other 22 stolen gems were returned to New York in an attorney's coat pocket, having been recovered in two water-logged suede pouches from a Miami bus terminal locker with the help of a third suspect. The three described themselves as ""beach boys."" Murphy is a sometimes an aquatic clown, but mainly they were notorious jewel thieves. Murphy was also accused of pistol-whipping actress Eva Gabor and stealing jewels worth $50,000 from her a year ago. |
| 10/1/1967 | Indian Tourist Development Corporation Limited established. |
| 10/2/1972 | Broadcasting of Mumabi Doordarshan started. |
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