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Historical Event on 10/14/1940
Cliff Richards [Harry Webb], rock vocalist, was born in Lucknow, India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/21/1977 | K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 5/27/1857 | Nana Sahib was captured at Kanpur. |
| 12/28/1974 | Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first Chief Minister of Rajasthan State, died. |
| 8/6/1920 | Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon. |
| 1/6/1832 | Publication of 'Darpan' magazine started. |
| 6/9/1998 | 81 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone. |
| 5/4/1960 | Washington, Ike signs wheat pact with India for largest U.S. food sale. |
| 1/22/1986 | Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. |
| 2/7/1931 | Shila Kaul, the chief minister of New Delhi, was born. |
| 7/7/1763 | Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal. |
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