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Events for February 14

14-February-1483	Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah (1526-30), prince and founder of Mughal dynasty in India, was born.
14-February-1556	Mughal Emperor Akbar was proclaimed as successor of Humayun at the age of tewelve years at Kalanur, Gurudaspur district, Punjab. Akbar (1542-1605), grandson of Babur, became third Mughal Emperor at the age of 13 years. He de-established Islam as state religion and declared himself impartial ruler of Hindus and Muslims. He also encouraged Art, Culture and Religious Tolerance.
14-February-1628	5th Mughal Emperor Shahjahan was crowned.
14-February-1658	Dara Sulaiman Shukoh was defeated in the struggle for Delhi throne Shuja's in the battle of Bahadurpur near Varanasi.
14-February-1755	Raghuji Bhosle, great fighter of Bhosle gharana in Nagpur, passed away.
14-February-1807	Khanderao Holkar, one of the sardars in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.
14-February-1881	Rajendra Lal Dutta and M.M.Basu established the first Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital in Calcutta.
14-February-1891	Stephen Smith, greatest pioneer of air borne mail, was born at Strawberry Hill, Shillong, Assam.
14-February-1901	Sambamurty Pichhu, music teacher, was born.
14-February-1901	King Edward VII open's his first parliament.
14-February-1914	Vinaya Kumar Parashar, journalist and social worker, was born at Hemgir, M.P.
14-February-1922	Bhimsen Joshi, great singer and composer, was born.
14-February-1924	Ikramullah (Ikram Sagri) Khan, famous Hindi poet, was born at Rehli in Madhya Pradesh.
14-February-1925	Mohan Dhariya, politician and nature lover, was born.
14-February-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, Ahmedaba
14-February-1932	Madhubala (Mumtaj Begam), film actress, was born.
14-February-1933	W. R. Sonar, famous marathi poet, author, playwright, editor and publisher, was born
14-February-1952	Smt. Sushma Kaushal Swaraj was born in Ambala Cantt. (Haryana).
14-February-1959	Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth.
14-February-1967	4th Parliamentary Lok Sabha Election was held and the election process was completed on 15/02/1967.
14-February-1970	Supreme Court holds nationalization of banks illegal. Presidential ordinance revalidates nationalization.
14-February-1976	Urban Land Ceiling Regulation Act comes into force.
14-February-1985	Dr. Nagendra Singh elected World Court Chief.
14-February-1989	Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
14-February-1990	An Indian Airlines Airbus crashes at Bangalore killing 92 people.
14-February-1994	The controversial Supreme Court Judge V.Ramaswami, who survived an impeachment motion in Parliament, retires.
14-February-1994	V. P. Singh elected JD Chief in place of S.R. Bommai who stepped down.
14-February-1996	President dedicates 55,000-seated Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium at Kochi to the nation.
14-February-1996	Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn.
14-February-1998	13 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.
14-February-1999	Fifth National Games inaugurated at Imphal.
14-February-2000	Mr. B. Rachaiah (78), former Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Goa, died in a hospital in Bangalore.
14-February-2000	The Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court judgment quashing the State Government's Ashraya scheme for providing plots to the poor.