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Historical Event on 1/14/1998

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to M. S. Subbualakshmi (b 1916).

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/2000P.T. Usha,Star Indian athlete, announces retirement from International athletics at a press conference in New Delhi.
8/23/1942Gorabai Katiya, freedom fighter, was shot by police while participating in a procession for freedom movement in Narsihapur.
4/1/1969India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore.
12/25/1999An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.
9/5/1659Queen Saibai, wife of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.
5/2/1908Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot.
4/4/1786In British Parliament, Berk alleged 11 corruption charges against Indian Governor General Warren Hastings.
6/30/1799Krishnaraj Bodiyar was once again declared as the King of Mysore.
11/8/1948Nathuram Godse confesses to murder of Gandhi but denies conspiracy.
12/3/1971During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began.