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Historical Event on 12/14/1969
Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/21/1997 | Seven Kashmiri Pandits gunned down by militants in Sangrampura. |
| 1/10/1987 | Sikh terrorists murder Punjab prison chief in Chandigarh. |
| 10/5/1878 | First Indian circus was played by Vishnu Moreshwar Chhatre of Sangli at Mumbai. |
| 11/11/1992 | S.Bangarappa resigns as the CM of Karnataka. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
| 11/9/1997 | Film Federation of India chooses Malayalam film 'Guru' as official entry for Oscar awards. |
| 8/16/1901 | Shripad Ramchandra Tikekar, journalist and critic, was born. |
| 11/21/1961 | Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef |
| 1/1/1995 | Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi. |
| 12/23/1900 | Kalicharan Patnaik, famous Orria dramatist, poet and journalist, was born. |
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