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Historical Event on 5/14/1954
President issues an order extending application of Indian Constitution to Kashmir with the concurrence of the State government.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/21/1998 | India declares a moratorium on nuclear testing. |
| 1/25/1948 | French India Peoples' Convention, Pondicherry, passed a resolution for complete merger of the French India with the Dominion of India. - G. V. Mavlankar was elected the first Speaker of the Indian Parliament. |
| 8/30/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the handloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores was also finalised. |
| 7/24/1932 | Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan was established for the service of the sick and humanitarian activities. |
| 5/27/2000 | In a mini cabinet reshuffle, Nitish Kumar gets back his Agriculture portfolio, while Dilip Ray resigns as Minister of State for Steel. |
| 10/19/1983 | Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler. |
| 12/10/1886 | Ardeshir M. Irani, producer, director, exhibitor and founder of Star Films Ltd. Bombay, was born at Poona. His first film was 'Veer Abhimanyu'. |
| 3/31/1999 | The PIO card, conferring privileges on persons of Indian origin settled abroad, is formally launched. |
| 5/1/1996 | International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title. |
| 4/15/1976 | India announces it will send an envoy to Peking, first time in 15 years. |
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