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Historical Event on 4/15/1883
Narhar Raghunath Phatak, famous journalist and historian, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/6/1962 | National Defence Council established. |
| 2/1/1968 | United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi. |
| 11/6/1930 | First Round Table Conference held at London. |
| 7/15/1936 | Hridayanand 'Kumaresh' Tiwari, great Hindi poet and writer, was born in Reoti, U.P. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 12/28/1981 | Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children. |
| 8/1/1931 | Bhairabh Ganguly, cricket test umpire for 5 tests from 1981-85, was born at Bengal. |
| 8/25/1998 | Resurgent India Bonds garner more than 4 billion dollars of which 30\% are from the Middle East, 20\% each from South east Asia, US and Europe. |
| 4/30/1996 | Re-polling in 445 stations in six states. |
| 5/4/1960 | Washington, Ike signs wheat pact with India for largest U.S. food sale. |
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