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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 12/15/1675 |
Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in Delhi by Aurangzeb for his refusal to embrace him. |
| 12/15/1749 |
Shahu Chattrapati, grandson of Shivaji, died. |
| 12/15/1803 |
East India Company captured Orrisa state. |
| 12/15/1859 |
S. Kasturiranga Ayengar, owner of Hindu newspaper, was born. |
| 12/15/1894 |
Saraswatibai, famous singer and classical music expert, was born. |
| 12/15/1908 |
Swami Ranga Natahananda, was born at Trikkur, Kerala. |
| 12/15/1912 |
Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born. |
| 12/15/1932 |
Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born. |
| 12/15/1943 |
The Vengeance suffered numerous defects and teething troubles, necessitating temporary withdrawal from the two IAF squadrons, but the problems were eventually mitigated if not eradicated, and No. 8 Sqn flew its first operational Vengeance sorties against Japanese targets from Double Moorings, Chittagong. |
| 12/15/1950 |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, first deputy Prime Minister of independent India also known as the 'Iron Man' and Bharat Ratna awardee, died. |
| 12/15/1951 |
Scindia's SS Jal Pushpa launched. |
| 12/15/1957 |
60 Harijans enter the Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi. |
| 12/15/1965 |
Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river. |
| 12/15/1965 |
Maharastra State Agriculture Industry Development Corporation established. |
| 12/15/1974 |
Rasulatbai, veteran classical music expert, died. |
| 12/15/1976 |
Baichung Bhutia, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Gangtok, Sikkim. |
| 12/15/1976 |
Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit |
| 12/15/1980 |
Hema Chengkalath, female Soccer(Football) player, was born in Calgary, Canada. |
| 12/15/1988 |
Landslide victory for GNLF in Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections. |
| 12/15/1991 |
Satyajit Ray, film maestro, awarded Special Oscar for his lifetime achievement. |
| 12/15/1992 |
BJP Governments of Sunderlal Patwa (MP), Shanta Kumar (HP) and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (Rajasthan) dismissed. |
| 12/15/1995 |
Rajya Sabha approves extension of President's rule in J & K for a further period of 6 months and also passes Government resolution approving imposition of President's rule in UP. |
| 12/15/1997 |
Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University. |
| 12/15/1997 |
Orissa Janata Dal unit splits with 29 of 43 Legislature Party members forming 'Biju Janata Dal'. |
| 12/15/1999 |
The CPI (M) urges the Centre to take over Dunlop India Ltd. |
| 12/15/1999 |
Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, arrives in Berlin to attend G-20 meet. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/16/1997 | Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet. |
| 10/26/1935 | Ashok P.Jain, great industrialist, was born. |
| 8/1/1993 | Air Chief Marshal Swaroop Krishna Kaul PVSM, MVC, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Dec/1995. |
| 11/29/1869 | Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra. |
| 1/23/1978 | The motto ""Shastra se Shakti"" (Strength though arms) in Hindi written in Devengiri script was approved by the President of India as the motto of the Army Ordnance Corps.The original corps motto of the Ordnance corps was ""Usa Tela Tananti"" found in the arms of the board of Ordnance. This was translated to mean ""To the thunder his arms"". The corps song titled ""Ayudh Corps Mahan"" was introduced for the first time in 4th re-union of the Army Ordnance Corps. The song is to be played or sung ""within unit lines only"", during purely Regimental functions. |
| 8/9/1996 | Unofficial estimates put black money in the country at Rs. 70,000 crore, i.e. 6\% of GDP. |
| 12/5/1905 | Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was born in Soura, Srinagar, Kashmir. |
| 1/4/1954 | Judge Mehr Chand Mahajan became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 22/12/1954. |
| 4/14/2000 | The AIADMK expels senior leaders Sedapatti R. Muthiah, S. Raghupathy and Karuppusamy Pandian for ''anti-party activities''. |
| 2/16/1994 | Military Museum established at Ahmadnagar. |
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