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Historical Event on 1/15/1947

Pritish Nandi, famous journalist, was born. Abul Kalam Azad became Minister of Education in the Government of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/10/1966MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik.
3/24/1990Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was withdrawn in toto from the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.
1/30/1988Sheshrao Wankhede, barrister, passed away.
1/29/1999Alok Kumar of Punjab defeated Devendra Joshi of Maharashtra at the IIT complex at New Delhi.
12/23/1989V. C. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 11-12-1990.
7/24/1996Govt. decides to raise the ceiling on the maximum amount of retirement/death gratuity from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 2.50 lakhs.
2/26/1996Parliament's budget session opens.
12/5/1950Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away.
1/18/1994Narasimha Rao decides to retain Veerappa Moily as Karnataka CM.
8/26/1984An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.