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Historical Event on 3/15/1997

Lok Sabha passes Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 1997.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/15/1919Osmania University was established at Hyderabad.
7/21/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission.
1/26/1957Shivlal Nandlal Yadav, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87), was born in Hyderabad.
2/23/1932The N. W. Frontier province is created.
1/7/1900Raghukul Tilak, educationist and social worker, was born at Meerut, UP.
6/6/1981The worst-ever railway accident took place in Bihar when a train plunged in Samastipur river.
10/30/1996Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay.
2/1/1785Warren Hastings left India on Feb 8 and attended the Council meeting for the last time.
12/9/1946The first meeting of Constitutional Committee Assembly was held in Parliment after a gap of two years, 11 months and 17 days. The Congress started its work of framing the Indian Constitution. Muslim League boycott failed to prevent Constituent Assembly opening. From 16th August 1946, the country witnessed communal riots on an unprecedented scale. At this crucial juncture, on 20th February 1947, Clement Atlee the British prime minister, fixed June 1948 as a deadline for transfer of power and Lord Mountbatten was appointed as the new Viceroy.
12/1/1911Dayarnav Raghunath Kopardekar, founder of ""Indrayani Sahitya Prakashan Sanstha"", was born.