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Historical Event on 6/15/1948

Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/29/1953Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague.
6/13/196660 people were killed in a collision between two suburban trains of Bombay.
6/11/1901Pramathanath Bishi, professor and Hindi writer, was born.
12/7/1997Leander Paes awarded 'The Sportstar' award.
5/27/1962Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri, cricketer (Indian SLA all-rounder 1981-92), was born in Bombay.
6/23/1927All India Radio's broadcasting service started in 1927 by privately owned transmitter at Bombay and Calcutta.
4/14/1989Ranjan Roy, captain of Indian Navy, and his wife Rupali Roy started off in a Maruti car.
1/10/1922Museum of Prince of Wales, situated at Mumbai, opened for public.
12/25/1972Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker, eminent litterateur, first Indian Governor General and the founder President of Swatantra Party, passed away.
4/7/1986Charles Sobhraj and his associate David Hall were nabbed at Mapusa in Goa.