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Historical Event on 11/14/1955

Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/8/1985India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster.
12/14/1998The Supreme Court allows Karnataka to begin skeletal work on erection of 26 crest gates at the Almatti dam on the Krishna at ''its own risk and cost'', but directs it not to raise the dam height beyond the present 509 metres.
8/15/1942Mahadev Haribhai Desai, an activist and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary, died of heart failure at Aga Khan's Palace.
8/15/1950Indian Constitution goes into effect.
8/15/1947Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.
3/27/1989Delhi beat Bengal by an innings and 210 to win the Ranji Trophy.
6/1/1959N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party.
6/1/1959Sultan Ghiyasu'd-din Tughluq Shah, emperor of Delhi, passed away.
8/19/1994Rupee made fully convertible on current account.
6/28/1996India opens its office (based in Gaza city) in the area under the Palestinian Authority.