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Historical Event on 8/15/1947
Hindu-Muslim association in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/8/1993 | FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 3/31/1994 | The Supreme Court orders closure of 11 industrial units around Taj Mahal. |
| 7/4/1897 | Alluri Seetaram Raju, freedom fighter, was born in a Kshatriya clan in Andhra Pradesh. He is rememberred as one of the great sons of India in the annals of Indian history who fought valiantly for his motherland in the early period of the freedom movement. |
| 6/21/1988 | Sikh activist bombers kill 30 in Amritsar. |
| 6/5/1994 | India test-fires a missile capable of reaching targets in China. |
| 7/31/1993 | Transport operators begin nation-wide strike. |
| 5/6/2000 | Saurav Ganguly wins the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year award 1999-2000. |
| 2/28/1968 | International City Auroville inaugurated the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondechery. |
| 6/20/1997 | Basu Bhattacharya (65), film-maker, died in Mumbai. |
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