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Historical Event on 12/15/1957

60 Harijans enter the Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/23/1947The U.K. Cabinet today took the historic step of agreeing to Lord Mountbatten's proposal for the partition of India into two states, one Muslim and the other Hindu. The Viceroy is to have a series of talks with Lord Listowel, the Secretary for India.
7/11/1994Delhi IG (prisons) Kiran Bedi wins Magsaysay Award for public service.
7/12/200067 persons died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Ghatkopar, a Mumbai suburb.
11/27/2000After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.
10/25/1997180mw Lower Periyar Hydroelectric Project in Kerala commissioned after 13 long years.
3/21/1836National Library was established.
4/15/1950Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested to the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his 'Bhudan Andolan'.
11/29/2000India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.
8/8/1990Naval Godrej, famous Industrialist, died.
4/8/2000Air India wins the Rani of Jhansi women's cricket tournament in Chennai.