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Historical Event on 8/14/1968
Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/17/1971 | Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir and end of Indo-Pak war. |
| 9/4/1880 | Bhupendranath Dutt, Bengali litterateur and politician, was born. |
| 3/16/1910 | Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi sr, England & India), was born in Pataudi, Punjab. |
| 1/30/1785 | Sir Charles Metkaff, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 3/25/1989 | India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation. |
| 9/16/1977 | Kesarbai Kerkar, famous classical singer, died in Bombay. |
| 10/6/1913 | V. R. Kant, famous poet, was born. |
| 1/10/1979 | Anand Gopal Shauri, litterateur and journalist, passed away. |
| 4/18/1959 | India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation. |
| 7/1/1852 | For the first time in Asia, Postal Stamp for the general public was issued by Sindh Province in Karachi. |
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