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Historical Event on 2/14/1929
Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/26/1937 | Manmohan Desai, film producer and director, was born. |
| 1/23/1996 | Maharashtra govt. winds up the inquiry commission headed by Justice Srikrishna set up to probe the communal riots in Mumbai in Dec. 92-Jan. 93. |
| 11/17/1991 | Narasimha Rao, PM, wins by-election in Nandyal with a record margin of 5,80,297 votes. |
| 1/7/1859 | The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29. |
| 6/23/1985 | Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died. |
| 4/1/1962 | Maharashtra State Finance Corporation started its operations. |
| 7/16/1981 | India performs nuclear Test. |
| 12/26/1831 | Hennry Louis Vivian Derozio passed away. |
| 11/30/1995 | G. Umapati, filmmaker, died. |
| 6/5/1997 | Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned. |
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