Year 1681
The East India Company declared a separate princely state of Bengal.
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14 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 14 November.
Observances & Special Days
World Diabetes Day (International)
Children’s Day (India)
Year 1770
James Bruce discovered the source of the Nile.
Year 1914
Eight Language panel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note was red. These languages were Urdu, Telugu, Kaithi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Burmese and Gujarati.
Year 1922
British Broadcasting Company launched radio service in the United Kingdom.
Year 1955
Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President.
Year 1957
Children's Day.
Year 1959
Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone.
Year 1964
Nehru Commemorative coin is released.
Year 1969
Establishment of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi.
Year 1973
Princess Anne of Britain married a common citizen. Earlier this had not happened in the royal family.
Year 1975
Spain left Western Sahara.
Year 1991
German Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl was nominated for the 1990 Jawaharlal Nehru International Reconciliation Award.
Year 1995
National Human Rights Commission's conference on 'Human Rights in Prisons' begins in New Delhi.
Year 1995
Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court.
Year 1996
Competition Post Card', a new category of postcard, priced Rs. 2 introduced.
Year 1997
Nisha Millet sets national mark in the 100m freestyle in the national aquatics.
Year 1998
Prominent Indian Government and private entities are targeted in the Clinton Administration Entities List. American Companies are barred from trading with the listed companies.
Year 2000
Jharkhand, the 28th State of the Indian Union, comes into being and the new Governor, Prabhat Kumar, and the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, take office.
Year 2002
Chinese President Jiang Zemin resigned from his post.
Year 2006
Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan agreed to create anti-terrorism mechanisms in New Delhi.
Year 2008
The first G-20 economic summit opened in Washington, D.C.
Year 2013
Sachin Tendulkar started playing the last (200th) Test of his career. The match against the West Indies was played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Born 1650
King William III of England.
Born 1719
Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, and violinist.
Born 1765
Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamship.
Born 1840
Oscar-Claude Monet, a French painter.
Born 1863
Leo Hendrik Arthur Backland, American chemist.
Born 1889
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer, and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964). To commemorate his birthday, this day is observed as 'Children's Day' from 1957.
Born 1891
Birbal Sahni, an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent.
Born 1919
Anantrao Bhalerao, freedom fighter, journalist and editor of daily news paper "Marathawada", was born.
Born 1922
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Born 1926
Piloo H. Mody, social reformer, politician and architect, was born at Bombay.
Born 1935
King Hussein of Jordan.
Born 1943
Aditya Vikram Birla, an Indian industrialist.
Born 1946
Bharathan, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 1998)
Born 1948
Sindhutai Sapkal, an Indian social worker, and social activist.
Born 1971
Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer.
Born 1971
Vikas Khanna, Indian chef and author
Born 1975
Gary Vaynerchuk, a Belarusian-American entrepreneur, author, speaker, and Internet personality.
Born 1979
Pushkar Lele, Indian singer
Died 1831
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German philosopher and an important figure in German idealism.
Died 1914
Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Indian lawyer and journalist (b. 1861)
Died 1915
Booker T. Washington, a social worker, writer, orator, and educator working for the African-American.
Died 1945
Eldridge Reeves Johnson, an American businessman, and engineer.
Died 1967
C. K. Naidu, Indian cricketer.
Died 1971
Narayan Hari Apte, novelist and film writer.
Died 1977
Abhay Charanarvind Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian monk and guru, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (b. 1896)
Died 1990
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge, an English journalist, and satirist.
Died 1993
Dr. Manibhai Bhimbhai Desai, an Indian Freedom Fighter.
Died 1997
N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
Died 2013
Sudhir Bhat, Indian producer, and manager (b. 1951)
Died 2013
Hari Krishna Devsare, Indian journalist and author (b. 1938)
Died 2015
K. S. Gopalakrishnan, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
Died 2016
Gwendolyn L. Ifill, an American journalist, television newscaster, and author.