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Historical Event on 6/15/1988

Dalai Lama recoganised the rights of China in foreign affairs and Army Operations in Tibet region.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/10/1955Prakash Padukone, internationally famous Badminton player, was born.
3/31/1935374 infants wed at a mass ceremony.
2/21/1959Press Club of India was founded in New Delhi.
7/28/1921The All-India Congress Party votes to boycott a forthcoming visit by the Prince of Wales and urges a boycott of imported cloth.
6/16/1990Bombay gets 42 cm rainfall, the century's highest. The previous high of 41 cm was recorded on 18, 1986.
3/6/1991Chandrasekhar resigns as PM.
10/20/1962China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level.
9/3/1906Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'.
7/4/1999S. Vijayalakshmi won the National women's `A' chess championship with a round to spare in Kozhikode.
5/20/1940Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.