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Historical Event on 12/14/1999

The Prime Minister informs the Lok Sabha that Ram Prakash Gupta has denied the remarks on temple construction.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/28/1827A few mountain battery trains flourished and kept the Indian component alive as part of the Royal artillery. Recently, it has been established that 8 Company Bombay Artillery survived axing and is now 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery. This day is now celebrated as the Raising Day of the Regiment of Artillery.
9/18/1997President K.R. Narayanan inaugurates Mammen Mappillai Hall at Kottayam, Kerala.
5/23/1975P. S. Bapat, victoria cross winner Lieutenant General, passed away.
11/30/1986Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
10/2/1950Persis Khambatta, famous actress (Star Trek, Megaforce), was born in Bombay.
11/7/1867Madam Marie Sklodowska, great scientist, professor and Nobel Prize awardee, was born in Poland.
11/13/1991Supreme Court orders establishment of an all-India judicial service.
2/26/1984Satellite Insat 1-B dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก
1/9/1841John Gil Christ, founder of Fort William College Calcutta, passed away at Paris.