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Historical Event on 10/15/1997
Arundhati Roy (37), Delhi-based author wins Britain's most prestigious literary award 'Booker Prize' for her novel "The God of Small Things'
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/13/1990 | An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka. |
| 2/25/1993 | 113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action. |
| 2/17/1976 | New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India. |
| 10/18/1919 | W. A. Sangma, leader of Meghalaya, was born. |
| 5/26/2000 | Prabhakar G. Surur (93) died in Mumbai. |
| 11/25/1879 | Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement. |
| 11/16/1989 | 66 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued. |
| 11/24/1926 | Aurobindo Ghose, former I.C.S. and revolutionary, attained full enlightenment I.e 'Purna Siddhi'. |
| 11/7/2000 | The BJP firebrand Uma Bharti makes a triumphant return to the Union Ministry as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and Arun Jaitley gets elevated as Cabinet Minister in a mini expansion. Maj.Gen. (Retd) B. C. Khanduri takes oath as Minister of State for Transport and Highways. |
| 12/25/1876 | Mohamad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born. |
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