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Significance of 14th April:

B.R. Ambedkar Remembrance Day is also known as Ambedkar Jayanti or Bhim Jayanti, which is observed on 14 April to commemorate the memory of B.R. Ambedkar. This day celebrates the birthday of Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, an Indian politician, and social rights activist.


Charak Puja is a Hindu folk festival primarily celebrated in West Bengal. It honors the deity Shiva and is known as Charak Gajan or Shiva Gajan. The festival symbolizes renewal, forgiveness, and agricultural prosperity. It's observed on Chaitra Sankranti, the last day of the Bengali month of Chaitra, marking the end of the old year and the beginning of the Bengali New Year.


1865- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

1894- The first ever commercial motion picture house opens in New York City, United States.

1912- The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.

2023- The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the European Space Agency.



Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:

1891- B. R. Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement.

1919- Shamshad Begum was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.

1922- Ali Akbar Khan was an Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana.

1942- Margaret Nazareth Alva is an Indian politician. She has formerly served as the Cabinet Minister. She served as the governor of Rajasthan until the end of her tenure in August 2014.

1951- Kailasavadivoo Sivan is an Indian aerospace engineer who served as the Secretary of the Department of Space and Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Space Commission.

1972- Kunal Ganjawala is an Indian playback singer whose songs are mostly featured in Hindi, Bengali, and Kannada films.



Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:

1962- Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was an Indian civil engineer, administrator, and statesman, who served as the 19th Dewan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918.

1963- Rahul Sankrityayan was an Indian author, essayist, playwright, historian, and scholar of Buddhism who wrote in Hindi and Bhojpuri. Known as the "father of Hindi travel literature".

1986- Nitin Bose was an Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter of the nation's film industry.

2021- Shamsuzzaman Khan was a Bangladeshi academician, folklorist, and writer who served as president of Bangla Academy since June 2020 until his death in April 2021.

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