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Historical Event on 10/15/1899

Menka (Lady Lila Sokhi), famous Indian dancer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/12/1970Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
1/20/1939Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, great Indian astronomer, was born.
7/17/1997K.R. Narayanan,Vice President, wins in the Presidential election with a record margin to become the next head of state.
8/15/1772Divani and Faujdary courts seperated by East India Company.
4/2/1953Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist and writer, passed away.
7/27/1949Agreement reached on the ceasefire line in Kashmir.
4/12/1621Guru Teg Bahadur Singh, Sikh Guru, was born.
10/21/1995L.K.Advani unanimously re-elected BJP president for the fourth time in New Delhi.
4/21/1998Ashok Kumar, Special Secretary, Union Home Ministry, who headed a Central team to Tamil Nadu to assess the law and order situation, was transferred to the Planning Commission.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.