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Historical Event on 7/14/1997

Eleventh Presidential election with K.R.Narayanan and T.N. Seshan as candidates; 732 out of 775 MPs and 3893 out of 4058 MLAs cast their ballots.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/3/1992Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).
10/21/1959Chinese and Indian troops clash on Ladakh border.
9/21/1948Formation of Press Trust of India (PTI) announced under an agreement signed between Reuters and Indian and Eastern Newspapers Society.
11/25/1956Lal Bahadur Shastri, Railway Minister, resigns from the office or Railway Minitery, taking moral responsibility for Ayyapan rail disaster thus setting a rare example for politicians.
4/20/1954Panchsheel agreement between China and India.
12/8/1999Furore in the Lok Sabha over RJD President Laloo Prasad Yadav's daughter topping the MBBS exam.
12/8/1980Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi.
4/14/1914Takli Shivshankar, famous Malyalam novelist and short story writer, was born.
10/31/1991Karsevaks' hoist flags on Masjid in Ayodhya.
8/15/1997Freedom fighter's pension to be doubled from the existing Rs. 1,500.