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Historical Event on 3/15/1997

Lok Sabha passes Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 1997.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/16/1996Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership.
10/31/1962Krishna Menon, Home Minister, resign due to attack by China.
1/11/1994Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away.
7/9/1746French sailor's fleet reached at the bank of Pondichery in India.
9/15/1997Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control.
8/26/1967Dilawar Hussain, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper in the 1930's), passed away.
8/20/1991India's Ambassador to Romania J.F.Ribeiro shot by Sikh extremists in Bucharest.
8/20/1991Kritiwas, writer of Ramayana in Bengali language, was born.
12/1/1911Dayarnav Raghunath Kopardekar, founder of ""Indrayani Sahitya Prakashan Sanstha"", was born.
1/15/1934Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed.