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Historical Event on 7/15/1917
Tukaram Tanaji Sawant, educationist and famous Hindi writer, was born at Pokharam, (Maharashtra).
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| 2/17/1948 | Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was re-designated as the 5th Battalion the 8th Gorkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles). |
| 4/10/1982 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1A) launched. First operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite procured from U.S.A.(Cape Canaveral). |
| 7/31/1992 | Thailand Airlines crashed in Himalayan Range, 113 persons died. |
| 5/6/1775 | Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested. |
| 1/14/1969 | Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu. |
| 8/18/1923 | Sadashiv ""Sadu"" Ganpatrao Shinde, cricketer (Indian leg-spinner during the late 1940's and early 1950's), was born in Bombay. |
| 12/15/1999 | Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, arrives in Berlin to attend G-20 meet. |
| 2/23/1997 | Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile. |
| 1/8/1884 | Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society. |
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