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Historical Event on 8/15/1947
Indian Independence Day.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/27/1976 | Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar, famous journalist, novelist and critic, passed away. |
| 6/27/1838 | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Chatterjee), famous novelist, ""the father of modern Indian fiction"" and writer of national song 'Vande Mataram', was borm at Katalpara near Naihati, West Bengal. Some of his writings are 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala'. He was among the first two Bengalee Graduates. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"". |
| 1/11/1966 | Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India. |
| 9/1/1956 | Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory. |
| 1/18/1997 | India's first electric car 'Reva' launched in Bangalore. |
| 9/5/1909 | Phiroze Edulji Palia, left-hand batsman and slow spin bowler, was born in Mumbai. He played in India's first Test at Lord's in 1932. |
| 5/30/1977 | Express Train fell into Beki river in Assam killing 44 persons. |
| 12/15/1749 | Shahu Chattrapati, grandson of Shivaji, died. |
| 8/15/1872 | Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry. |
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