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Historical Event on 5/14/1998

India will not sign CTBT unconditionally, says the Prime Minister.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/8/2000The Gujarat Government withdraws its January 3 notification, thus reimposing the ban on its employees from participating in RSS activities.
1/29/1939Radical Subhas Chandra Rose beats Gandhi's candidature to become Indian President.
9/30/1996Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai.
6/20/1994Anti-Pakistan slogans rent the air in Jammu & Kashmir against the killing of Quazi Nissar Ahmed, Mirwaiz of South Kashmir and a famous religious Kashmiri leader who was gunned down by Pak-aided terrorists.
6/21/1998India and Russia sign a $2.5-billion deal to set up a nuclear power station at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu.
6/21/1998Genghis Khan, Monghol conqueror, passed away.
10/20/1991Pandit Kalyandas Mahaprasad, famous Kathak dancer, died.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
4/3/1988Rajiv Gandhi seals the border between Punjab and Pakistan.
1/28/1933India in Waldorf Hotel in London read out a four and a half page note in Cambridge.