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Historical Event on 1/15/1998

Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/16/1878Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala.
10/13/1971Hitesh Modi, cricketer (Kenyan left-handed batsman 1996 World Cup), was born.
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
3/2/1996Malabar University (Kerala) comes into being.
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
7/4/1992Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh.
7/27/1998B. B. Lyngdoh is sworn in Meghalaya Chief Minister.
10/11/1988Janata Dal, a new national centrist opposition party, launched. V. P. Singh elected President.
1/18/1997SC says telephone tapping is violation of fundamental rights but permits it by government in special circumstances.
5/1/1996P. Shiv Shanker, Kerala Governor, resigns in view of the ongoing CBI investigation against him in the hawala case.