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Historical Event on 3/15/1992

Dr. Rahi Masum Raza, film screenplay, story and dialogue writer, passed away at the age of 64 years.

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11/22/1913Lakshmikant Jha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state and international famed ecomonist, was born.
4/1/1986Delhi beat Haryana by innings and 141 runs to win the Ranji Trophy.
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4/3/1996Union Ministers P. Chidambaram and M. Arunachalam resign over the issue of revival of alliance between Cong (I) and AIADMK.
1/11/1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
2/2/2000The Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry clears Ms. Deepa Mehta's film ''Water'' after the director agreed to make some changes in the script.
4/7/1920Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India.
7/4/1897Alluri Seetaram Raju, freedom fighter, was born in a Kshatriya clan in Andhra Pradesh. He is rememberred as one of the great sons of India in the annals of Indian history who fought valiantly for his motherland in the early period of the freedom movement.
5/27/1994Tarktirth Laxmanshastri Joshi, internationally famous omnicient, passed away.
3/23/1911Indranath Bandopadhyay, Bengali comedy writer and journalist, passed away.