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Historical Event on 4/15/1946

Triumphant over flesh and pain they passed away our day of peace to Cain. The original memorial was erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/24/1946British Cabinet Mission came to India presided by Lord Pethick Lawrence.
7/1/1968Asia's biggest nuclear research lab started in New Delhi.
11/2/1990Many die in firing in Ayodhya as Karsevaks storm the Ram Janma Bhumi/Babri Masjid structure. Curfew in many areas in north and west India to prevent communal violence. Several people die in violence.
4/14/1979Sanjiva Reddy,President, flagged off the first electric train in Madras.
3/16/1860Dr. W.M. Haffkine, great scientist, bacteriologist and professor, was born at Odessa in Russia.
9/29/2000Nayudu award goes to former India cricket captain Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari.
8/26/1914Bengali revolutionaries looted 46,000 bullet ammunition and pistols from Calcutta Port for their revolutionary activities.
8/10/1855Alladiya Khan, famous singer of Kolhapur court, was born.
2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
9/13/1928Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away.