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Historical Event on 8/15/1918
Hans Kumar Tiwari, famous poet and translater, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/3/1913 | Sudangsu Abinash Banerjee, 'Montu', cricketer, (5 wickets, 1 test vs West Indies) was born in Calcutta. |
| 4/3/1903 | Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, famous politician, freedom fighter and social worker, was born in South Kanara, Karnataka. |
| 6/1/1970 | Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act was enforced. This act was passed in 1969. |
| 9/11/1948 | Mohammad Ali Jinnah, father of Pakistan, died. |
| 6/9/1967 | Narayan Shripad Rajhans, alias Bal Gandharva, went into a coma in Bombay and never regained his consciousness. |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
| 5/20/1677 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Jingi. |
| 8/29/1993 | Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will. |
| 10/5/1805 | Lord Charles Cornwallis, Governor General, died of ill health at Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 12/7/1993 | BJP leaders Advani, Joshi and Kalyan Singh arrested in connection with Ayodhya demolition case. |
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