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Historical Event on 4/15/1895
Bal Gangadhar Tilak inagurated the Shivaji Mahotsav at Raigad Fort.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/20/1989 | R. S. Pathak, Chief Justice of India, elected to the World Court. |
| 8/3/1900 | Nana Patil, great revolutionary, was born. |
| 1/3/1917 | Kartarsingh Duggal, famous Punjabi story-writer and novelist, was born. |
| 10/2/1954 | Chandernagar, former under French possession, was made a part of West Bengal. |
| 7/12/1999 | Rajendra Kumar (71), legendary actor who acted in over 150 Hindi films, died in Mumbai. |
| 1/11/1858 | Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 7/23/1856 | Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. |
| 8/23/1933 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from government detention in the Poona Civil Hospital after doctors warned that his fast was endangering his life. Gandhi, who undertook the fast eight days ago in protest over being arrested again by British authorities, weighed 90 pounds at the time of his release. There was considerable speculation over what the nationalist leader would do upon regaining his strength, but the common assumption was that he would be arrested again by the British authorities if he resumed his civil disobedience. |
| 9/2/1956 | Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India). |
| 8/1/1989 | Kirti Vrajlal Ambani,Reliance executive, held in connection with a plot to kill Bombay Dyeing Chairman Nusli Wadia. |
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