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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 |
| 2/17/1976 | Urban Ceilings Act comes into force. |
| 11/5/1930 | Arjun Singh, leader of Madhya Pradesh, was born. |
| 10/9/1945 | British troops occupy Andaman in Gulf of Bengal. |
| 12/12/1965 | Vijayanta, first India-made millitary tank which was handed over to the Army, was manufactured at Avadi Heavy Vehicles Factory at Madras. |
| 10/24/1992 | Narmada, World Bank sets time to correct defects. |
| 9/20/1998 | A. B. Bardhan is re-elected CPI general secretary. |
| 11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
| 1/12/1863 | Swami Vivekananda (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta)(1863-1902), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer, was born at Calcutta. |
| 3/22/1709 | It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631. |
| 1/25/1930 | Mehdi Baqer, great educationist, was born at Faizabad in UP. |
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