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Historical Event on 5/14/1995

Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/19/1996Gujarat's expelled BJP leader Shankersingh Waghela forms a new party called 'Rashtriya Janata Party'.
7/14/1636Aurangzeb was appointed as Shahjahan by Viceroy of Deccan.
12/28/1688Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites).
9/1/1798England signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India.
8/4/1979Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay.
6/22/1897The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter.
1/1/1877Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar.
3/11/1824US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair.
5/27/1952The use of Hindi language in addition to English language and of Devnagri form of numerals in addition to the international form of Indian numerals was authorised for warrants of appointments of Governors of State, Judges of the Supreme Court and Judges of the High Court.
5/20/1996CPI Leader Indrajit Gupta appointed pro-term speaker in the Lok Sahba.