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Historical Event on 3/15/1831

First Marathi Almanac (Panchang) started by Ganpat Krishnaji.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/2/1960Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away.
1/29/1896Swami Paranabananda Brahamachari, founder of `Bharat Sevashram Sangha', was born in Bajitpur village of Faridpur district. He took 'sanyas' in 1924.
3/29/1979Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
7/1/1941C. Y. Chintamani died.
8/15/1854The first train of the East Indian Railways steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hoogly, which was at a distance of 24 miles. It was the first passenger train catering to public traffic. Officially, it was inaugurated in 1855.
8/4/1929Kishor Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, was born at Khandava. He is also rememberd as a comic actor, director and musician.
10/29/1996Kamini' (Kalpakkam Mini), a 30 KW research reactor which uses man-made Uranium-233 as fuel and the only working reactor of its kind in the world, attains 'criticality'.
7/23/1996India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta.
1/4/1940Shrikant Sinkar, famous Marathi novelist, was born.
10/11/1927Sarojini Regani, great journalist, was born at Secunderabad.