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Historical Event on 12/15/1997
Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/13/1994 | United Arab Emirates lost to India in its first official ODI. |
| 1/1/1877 | Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar. |
| 9/2/1970 | Parliament abolishes the privileges of 279 maharajahs in New Delhi. |
| 3/22/1933 | M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka. |
| 9/3/1987 | Vishwanathan Anand, 17, becomes India's first and the world's youngest Grandmaster. |
| 2/9/1942 | Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India. |
| 11/1/1902 | Alwar Iyengar Jaggu, famous Hindi writer and professor, was born at Chatra Ghosham. |
| 4/5/1919 | India's first modern shipping company Scindia Steam Navigation's first ship 'Liberty' started its journey. The weight of the ship was 5,940 tonnes. |
| 7/20/1982 | Mira Behn (90), disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away. |
| 12/15/1997 | Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University. |
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