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Historical Event on 5/14/2000

L. K. Advani, Union Home Minister, announces extension of the ban on the LTTE by two more years.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/4/1987Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan.
3/22/1793Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year.
5/9/1917Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India.
9/5/1659Queen Saibai, wife of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.
4/29/2000The Army institutes a high-level court of inquiry under Maj. Gen. C.B. Suku to look into the causes of the arms depot conflagration.
1/22/1683Shri Samarth Ramdas passed away.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
1/31/1958First Earth Satellite Explorer I was launched from Cape Kennedy.
4/23/1930Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers.
3/16/1946India calls Attlee's independence offer contradictory, 'a propaganda move'.