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Historical Event on 11/15/1830

Ram Mohun Roy sailed for England. He was the first Indian Brahmin (then 'Brahmo') to go to England.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/17/1932V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
10/31/1966Mihir Sen swam Panama Canal in 34 hours 15 minutes.
8/7/1986Lok Sabha passes Constitution 53rd Amendment bill conferring statehood on Mizoram.
9/16/2000Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
11/25/1998Nitish Kumar, Railway Minister, lays the foundation stone for the Chengalpattu-Arakkonam gauge conversion in Kancheepuram. The Kanchi Shankaracharyas stay away from the function following a controversy triggered over the invitation extended to them by the Railways.
6/14/1996CBI grills PV Prabhakar Rao, son of former PM, for his involvement in the Rs. 133 crore NFL urea import scandal.
7/23/1996R. Bhattacharji was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He is heading this office till date.
12/28/1883Under the leadership of Surendra Nath Banerji, the political group of Bengal organised National Conference as ""Bharat Sabha"".
9/10/1976An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan.