1900- Indian tribal independence activist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
1948- Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
1959- The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
1964- Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes Prime Minister of India after being selected by the ruling Congress Party after Jawaharlal Nehru passed away.
Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:
1899- Vaman Srinivas Kudva was a founding director of Syndicate Bank, one of the oldest and major commercial banks of India.
1931- Nandini Satpathy was an Indian politician and author. She was the Chief Minister of Odisha from June 1972 to December 1976.
1949- Kiran Bedi is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021.
1981- Anoushka Hemangini Shankar is a British-American sitar player and musician of Indian descent, as well as occasional writer.
1993- Arjun Vajpai is an Indian mountaineer who became the world's youngest mountaineer to summit six peaks over 8,000 meters in the year 2018.
Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:
1834- William Carey was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College.
1870- Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer, and social critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era.
2011- Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian painter and film director who painted narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style.
Good morning all. Significance of *14th March*: *Events* that took place on this day: *Pi Day* is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant *π (pi).* Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3/14 in the month/day format) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant figures of π. It was *founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw,* an employee of the Exploratorium. 1780- American Revolutionary War: *Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte* in Mobile, Alabama. 1794 - *Eli Whitney* is granted a patent for the *cotton gin* (a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds). 1864- *Sir Samuel White Baker* was an English Explorer, author, and administrator who *explored the Upper Nile and discovered Lake Albert.* 1900- *The Gold Standard Act* is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard. 1931- *Alam Ara* was released. It was the first Indian sound film and was directed by Ardeshir Irani. 1939- *Slovakia* declares independe...
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