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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
12/28/1977Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died.
11/19/1998Shruti Khanna won her Maiden title on Indian soil in the Northern India Ladies Championship at the Delhi Golf Course.
4/7/2000The Delhi police unearth a multicrore cricket betting and match- fixing racket involving five South African cricketers, including the captain Hansie Cronje. A Delhi-based Indian operator Rajesh Kalra put behind bars.
12/17/1933Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut.
8/5/1950Gopinath Bardoloi, architect of modern Assam, freedom fighter and leader, passed away.
9/24/193119 people were killed by police during the anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir.
3/12/1993Powerful bomb blasts at twelve various places in Mumbai takes 317 lives.
1/1/1992Petrol and diesel price hiked in 11 states to make it uniform all over the country.
5/10/1927Nayantara Sahgal, famous writer and social reformer, was born.
3/18/1948Socialist Party of India (SPI) disassociates itself from the Congress.