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Historical Event on 8/15/1996
Deve Gowda speaks in Hindi on the occasion of the 50th Independence Day.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/15/1982 | Supreme Court rules that all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to public education. |
| 2/28/1951 | Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot. |
| 3/9/1966 | India yields to Sikh demand for Punjab-speaking state. |
| 9/18/1867 | Ganganendranath Tagore, great painter, patriot and artist, was born in Calcutta. |
| 7/2/1961 | Prof M S Thacker, DG-CSIR, laid the foundation stone for the wind tunnel complex. |
| 1/27/1974 | President V. V. Giri inaugurated the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Museum and it was opened for public at Teen Murti House, New Delhi. |
| 11/19/1997 | 22 persons killed and 30 injured when car bomb explodes outside film studio in Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad. The deceased include Eanadu TV crew of six people. |
| 2/18/1911 | Under the auspices of the British Army, French pilot Henry Pequet makes the first official airmail flight from Allahabad to Naini Junction. |
| 11/24/1999 | The dedication ceremony of Shanmukhananda Hall is put off. |
| 2/8/1993 | India and Spain sign four agreements as the Spanish PM, Felipe Gonzalez, began a two-day visit to New Delhi. |
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