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Historical Event on 8/14/1998

The Government transferred Revenue Secretary N. K. Singh and Finance Secretary Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/26/1813Swati Tirunal Ramavarma, outstanding composer of Carnatic music in Kerala, was born in a royal family of Travancore.
3/17/1985Dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), passed away.
3/1/1905Karmaveer Bhausaheb Hire was born.
12/29/1949Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras.
4/21/1991Hastmalji Maharaj, Jainbhumi parampujya, passed away.
2/7/1931Satpal Kapur, Congress leader, was born.
9/8/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
4/5/1940Charles Freer Andrews, a Christian Missionary, died in Calcutta. He is also referred as ""Deenabandhu Andrews"".
6/21/1862Ganendra Mohan Tagore was the first Indian to get the Barrister-at-Law Degree after passing the examination from Lincoln Inn University.
11/5/1915Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born.