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Historical Event on 12/15/1912
Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/18/1995 | President's Rule imposed in UP and the State Assembly put in suspended animation. |
| 1/22/1990 | FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case. |
| 4/17/1983 | Rohini (RS-D2), placed in orbit, was used for conducting some remote sensing technology studies using a landmark sensor payload. Launched by the second developmental launch of SLV-3. |
| 3/16/1924 | Bhupendranath Basu, great freedom fighter, President of Congress and fluent orator, passed away. |
| 4/23/1930 | Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 2/14/1990 | An Indian Airlines Airbus crashes at Bangalore killing 92 people. |
| 2/14/1990 | Shahaji Raje Bhosale, father of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was born. |
| 2/1/1972 | International Airports Authority of India established. |
| 11/28/1962 | K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died. |
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