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Historical Event on 8/15/1997
IWM Vijayalakshmi wins Asian Zonal Women's Chess tournament in Tehran.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/25/1961 | Delhi upgraded as an A-class city on the basis of provisional Census figures of 1961. |
| 3/29/1914 | Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram came in India. |
| 3/24/1924 | Virendrakumar Bhattacharya, Gyanpeeth award winner and Assamia novelist, was born. |
| 4/12/1621 | Guru Teg Bahadur Singh, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 3/17/1982 | President's rule in Kerala. |
| 2/27/1931 | Chandrashekhar Azad of Hindustan Republican Army shot himself to avoid British police arrest at Alfred Park, Allahabad. |
| 1/14/1926 | Mahashweta Devi was born at Jinda Bahar Lane, Dhaka. |
| 1/18/1942 | Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies. |
| 9/1/1896 | Bhaktivedanta Swami, litterateur and social worker, was born in Calcutta. |
| 1/22/1903 | Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta. |
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