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Historical Event on 1/15/2000
Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1996 | India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in the first innings of the game. |
| 1/3/1921 | First Indian Parliament meets. |
| 4/17/1999 | The Vajpayee Government resigns after it loses the confidence vote in the Lok Sabha by one vote - 269 to 270. |
| 1/18/1985 | Spy ring cracked. Top Government officials, businessmen held. |
| 9/13/1984 | Swami Brahmanand died. He established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960). He joined the freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement. |
| 3/24/1998 | 200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district. |
| 3/25/1933 | Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born. |
| 7/20/1636 | John Oldham, trader of mass, was murdered by Indians. |
| 6/26/1983 | Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat. |
| 12/6/1995 | The Sixth Army Ordnance Corps Reunion and Silver Jubilee of Colour Presentation was celebrated at AOC Centre with pomp and splendour, fun and gaiety and professionalism of high order. The highlights included para-dropping, AOC Kangla Tongbi, Sonet-lumiere sound and light show, Central Parade and Yaadgar Parade. |
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