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Historical Event on 1/14/1998

Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/24/1996H.K.L. Bhagat, senior Congress politician and former minister, arrested in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case.
1/1/1972Indian states abolished the previous rulers of Privy purses and privileges.
10/9/1978Asian Games begin in Bangkok.
8/8/1946India agrees to give Bhutan 32 miles.
1/10/199324th International Film Festival of India opens in New Delhi.
1/27/199455 miners, trapped inside New Kenda Colliery of Eastern Coal Fields, die.
10/2/1845First Shipping Company of India started.
12/29/1953The States Reorganisation Commission.
10/18/1968Narendra Deepchand Hirwani, cricketer (Ind leggie 16 wickets vs WI on debut in 1988), was born in Gorakhpur.
1/31/1995ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997).