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Historical Event on 8/15/1997
K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.

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3/22/1996	Golden Temple renamed Harmandir Sahib (its original name meaning 'abode of God').
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4/14/1990	L. P. Poarbosa sworn in as CM of Goa.
7/26/2000	The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
6/17/1947	Burma was adopted as republic by constitution assembly.
1/5/1988	India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
4/18/1991	Kerala declared the first fully literate state in the country.
2/2/1862	Pandit Shambhunath was the first Indian to become Judge of Indian High Court.

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Historical Event on 8/15/1997 K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.

Historical Event on 8/15/1997
K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.