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Historical Event on 1/14/1980
Indira Gandhi was sworn in as the Prime Minister of India. She held the office till she was assassinated on October 31, 1984.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/14/1980 | Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 11/20/1989 | Hirabai Barodekar, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", passed away. |
| 12/22/1975 | Vasant Krishna Desai, famous music director, died. |
| 5/2/1921 | Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''. |
| 7/3/1751 | Pilaji Jadhav died. |
| 12/30/1949 | India recognizes People's Republic of China. |
| 12/28/1921 | Prince of Wales inagurated Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta. |
| 5/31/1997 | Fourth National Games opened at Bangalore. |
| 12/6/1907 | Revolutionaries looted Chingaripota station. |
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