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On This Day - What happened 16 August 2014 AD

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  • Vatican City
    Saturday Aug 16, 2014
    Pope Francis

    The pope has also continued the practice of having beatifications

    Vatican City
    Saturday Aug 16, 2014

    The pope has also continued the practice of having beatifications celebrated in the place of the individual's origin though has presided over beatifications himself on three occasions for Paul Yun Ji-Chung and 123 companions on 16 August 2014, his predecessor Pope Paul VI on 19 October 2014 and two Colombian martyrs on 8 September 2017.



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  • India
    Saturday Aug 16, 2014
    Narendra Damodardas Modi

    Abolished the Planning Commission

    India
    Saturday Aug 16, 2014

    Modi abolished the Planning Commission, replacing it with the National Institution for Transforming India, or NITI Aayog.



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