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Historical Event on 12/15/1912
Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/19/1796 | Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds. |
| 7/21/1658 | Aurangzeb celebrated his being the emperor of Mugal Empire at Delhi. He was informally enthroned. |
| 12/16/1909 | Lal Singh Narayan Singh, cricketer (scored 15 & 29 in India's 1st Test match), was born near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
| 2/21/1992 | Congress scores nearly three-fourth majority in Punjab Assembly elections. |
| 9/29/1998 | ISRO successfully launches its largest sounding rocket, Rohini (RH-560 mk, 11 total payload, 127 kg). |
| 6/4/1955 | Ministry of Iron & Steel inaugurated. |
| 1/26/2000 | Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 5/31/1921 | Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born. |
| 1/10/1997 | 28th International Film Festival of India opens at Trivandrum. |
| 8/15/1947 | India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries. |
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