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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 |
| 8/18/1995 | Parvati Giri, also called the Little Mother Teresa, died in Orissa. She was 69. She was a social worker and had taken part during the Quit India movement. |
| 6/10/1833 | Azad Muhammad Jussain, Urdu poet and educationalist, was born. |
| 10/20/1998 | Security forces unearth 770 kg of RDX and plastic explosives in the Tangmay area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 1/21/1820 | Dalpat Rai, modern Gujrati poet, was born. |
| 5/19/1991 | About 20 crore voters go to the polls in the first phase of election in 204 constituencies of the 10th Lok Sabha. |
| 2/13/1997 | Deve Gowda, PM, dedicates the Rs. 3200-crore 480 MW Uri hydel project in north Kashmir to the nation. |
| 5/31/1997 | Fourth National Games opened at Bangalore. |
| 1/18/1997 | Khanna Committee recommends more power to RBI over non-banking financial companies. |
| 4/24/1959 | Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie. |
| 5/10/1905 | Pankaj Malik, music director, was born. |
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