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Historical Event on 3/14/1998

Sonia Gandhi takes over as the Congress(I) president from Sitaram Kesri.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/13/1772Warren Hastings, who became the president of their Bengal Council, was appointed in the court of Directors of the East India Company.
5/19/1796Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds.
8/27/1859Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, was born.
12/28/1977Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died.
6/19/1991Sudhakar Rao Naik (Cong-I) sworn in as the Maharashtra CM.
2/10/1995PM appoints Madhavrao Scindia as Human Resource Minister, Pranab Mukherjee as External Minister, Buta Singh as Civil Supplies, Ajit Singh as Food, and P. Chidambaram as Commerce Minister.
5/25/19415,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India.
6/17/1996Balasahab Devras, Sarsangha Chalak of Rashtriya Sawyamsewak Sangh, died.
3/17/1863Sayajirao Gaekwad of Baroda was born.
10/10/1978Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'.