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Historical Event on 6/15/1947
All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/21/1993 | The 68 km Mangalore-Udupi stretch of the west coast Konkan rail line opened by the PM. |
| 2/15/1967 | Fourth General Election of Lok Sabha begins. |
| 6/6/1916 | Lord Kitchener, the premier soldier of the British Empire, passed away tragically last night as the ''Hampshire'', the cruiser on which he was traveling to Russia to boost sagging morale, struck a mine or was torpedoed off the Orkney Islands and sank, drowning all aboard. Life in London came to a standstill, while Paris and Washington were shocked by the news. In the last half-century, through tireless energy and devotion to imperial duty, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 66, commanded in Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, and India. Two years ago, he had become the War Secretary. |
| 3/28/1916 | Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away. |
| 3/10/1997 | Maharashtra government renames Osmanabad as Dharashiva. |
| 11/8/1947 | Junagadh accedes to India. Addresses A.I.C.C. |
| 8/28/1972 | General Insurance Business was nationalised. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 10/4/2000 | Kashmir has been the cause of tensions between India and Pakistan and foreign interference should be stopped,'' said Russian President Vladimir Putin at the joint session of both the Houses of Parliament. |
| 12/20/1850 | Atma Dev, social reformer and religious leader, was born. |
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