Women’s
Savings Day (India)
Women’s Savings Day is celebrated on
14th April of Every Year through out India
Day of the Georgian language (Georgia)
Day of Mologa (Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia)
N'Ko Alphabet Day (Mande speakers)
New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian
cultures, celebrated on the sidereal vernal
equinox:
Assamese New Year, or Rongali Bihu (India's
Assam Valley)
Bengali New Year, or Pohela Boishakh (Bangladesh
and India's West Bengal state)
Burmese New Year, or Thingyan (Burma)
Sikh New Year, or Vaisakhi (Punjab region)
Khmer New Year, or Chol Chnam Thmey, most commonly
celebrated on April 13 (Cambodia)
Lao New Year, or Songkan / Pi Mai Lao, generally
celebrated from 13 to 15 April (Laos)
Malayali New Year, or Vishu (India's Kerala
state)
Nepali New Year, or Bikram Samwat / Vaishak
Ek (Nepal)
Oriya New Year, or Maha Visuba Sankranthi (India's
Orissa state)
Sinhalese New Year, or Aluth Avurudhu (Sri Lanka)
Tamil New Year, or Puthandu (India's Tamil Nadu
state, Sri Lanka)
Thai New Year, or Songkran, celebrated from
13 to 15 April (Thailand)
Tuluva New Year, or Bisu (India's Karnataka
state)
The first day of Takayama Spring Festival (Takayama,
Gifu, Japan)
April 14: Women’s Savings Day
Women’s Savings Day is celebrated on
14th April of Every Year through out India.
In Tamilnadu it is being celebrated in each
District with the participation of the District
Collectors. In Chennai city, the Women’s Savings
Day was celebrated with the participation of
Commissioner of Small Savings and the Regional
Director, Nation Savings Institute and other
important officials of State and Central Government.
The Services of the MPKBY agents were recognized
on the day.
Events
1699 – Khalsa: The Sikh Religion
was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood
of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in
Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi
calendar.
1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition
of his dictionary.
1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of
Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic
hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm.
The ship sinks the following morning with the
loss of 1,517 lives.
1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg,
Sweden.
1931 – First edition of the Highway Code published
in Great Britain.
1935 – "Black Sunday Storm", the worst
dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
1944 – Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion
in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic
damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first
demonstrated.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls
from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle,
Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
1986 – 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fall on
the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing
92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during
Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq,
two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly
shoot-down two United States Army helicopters,
killing 26 people.
1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic
Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75
people are killed.
1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia
causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the
most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed
with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an
accuracy of 99.99%.
2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude
6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
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