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Historical Event on 5/14/1972

Fighting between Indian and Pakistani forces along the Kashmir border reported.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/4/1933Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to one year imprisonment.
1/21/2000The Samata Party National Executive elects Mrs. Jaya Jaitley as its president.
1/22/1963The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun.
4/30/1992Over 7 years after the gas disaster, a Bhopal court orders attachment of Carbide properties in India.
8/15/1972Postal Index Number (PIN Code) of 6-digits was introduced.
9/10/1923Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away.
3/21/2000The 10,000 bond scheme for short-term visitors to the UK will not be applied to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, said British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Keith Vaz.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
10/11/1999Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely.
5/27/1948The trial of nine men accused of assassination of Gandhi before a special court judge at the Red Fort. The trial ended on 30th Dec.