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Historical Event on 7/14/1998

India is elected chairperson of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's standing panel on information technology in relation to Intellectual Property Rights.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/10/1984White Paper on Punjab released by Union Government.
11/30/1986Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
11/5/1892John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford.
9/30/1999India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'.
11/29/1961First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India.
1/11/1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
9/10/1923Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away.
8/6/1997Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.
9/27/1760Mir Zafar was deposed and his son-in-law Mir Kasim became the Nawab of Bengal. He ruled till July 7, 1763.
8/1/1958Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership given to Acharya Bhave.