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Historical Event on 8/15/1997

Freedom fighter's pension to be doubled from the existing Rs. 1,500.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/25/1856Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians.
6/15/1993PM Narasimha Rao visits Oman; India and Oman decide to give each other MFN status.
11/3/1984Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated.
10/23/1934Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress.
2/4/1976Lok Sabha's life extended by one year.
9/16/1931R. Ramachandra Rao, cricket test umpire for one test in 1986-87, was born at Tamil Nadu.
3/17/1920Mujiburr Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara now in Bangladesh.
3/17/1769To establish the business of English Mill's Cloth, East Indiian Company had imposed various restriction on weavers of Bengal to destroy the Muslim and textile industry in Bengal , which was meant to destroy the Indian cloth and 'malmal' industry.
3/15/1983Karnataka beat Bombay in 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy.
8/14/1920Rushikesh Mulgaonkar, Air Chief Marshal (1976-78), was born.