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Historical Event on 11/14/1997

N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1956Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory.
4/6/1934Nilkanth Yashwant Khadilkar, editor of Marathi daily newspaper, was born.
1/14/1993The Supreme Court absolves Railway Minister Jaffer Sharief of corruption charges in the wagon deal with Asea Brown Boveri.
3/9/1997Mumbai takes Wills Trophy in Mohali.
7/14/1946India grants Siam a 20 year, 3 mil. credit to increase export of Siamese rice.
8/14/1987Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour.
10/30/1997Kerala Kaumudi's Kannur edition and Internet edition begin.
1/19/2000Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship.
1/31/1976Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, PVSM, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
11/30/2000CBI files fresh cases against JMM MPs Shibu Soren, Simon Marandi and Suraj Mandal on charges of possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.