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Jawaharlal Nehru b'day spl: 10 facts to know about India's first Prime Minister

Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Allahabad. He was India's first Prime minister. Nehru loved children and they returned that love to him by fondly referring to him as 'chacha Nehru'. His

9.    There were four known assassination attempts on Nehru. The first attempt on his life was during partition in 1947 while he was visiting North-West Frontier Province (now in Pakistan) in a car.

The second one was by a knife-wielding rickshaw-puller in Maharashtra in 1955. The third one happened in Mumbai in 1956. The fourth one was a failed bombing attempt on train tracks in Maharashtra in 1961.

Despite threats to his life, Nehru despised having too much security around him and did not like to disrupt traffic due to his movement.

Nehru enjoyed interacting with people as he journeyed on. Security prevented him from meeting with the masses one on one.