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Historical Event on 1/15/1971
Dinanath Damodar Dalal, great artist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/13/1638 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, was born at Salwa. |
| 3/13/1996 | Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final. |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 1/1/1978 | Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived. |
| 6/13/1999 | The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector. |
| 9/4/1987 | Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan. |
| 3/31/1997 | Forex reserves touch a record $ 22.36 billions. |
| 5/12/1993 | Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 9/21/2000 | J.W. Singh, suspended Mumbai High Court judge facing charges of extortion in nexus with the underworld, dismissed from judicial service. |
| 2/19/1992 | The ruling Congress party wins local elections boycotted by Sikhs in Punjab. |
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