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Historical Event on 8/15/1998
Golden jubilee celebrations of the Indian Independence ends.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/27/1996 | General Election (11th) of India begins. |
| 11/16/1992 | Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria. |
| 6/29/1999 | An Indian High Commissioner member N. R. Doraiswamy is beaten up by Pakistani intelligence operatives. |
| 3/8/1833 | Vishwanath Narayan Mandalik, famous journalist, writer and social reformer, was born. |
| 10/2/1942 | Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire. |
| 1/31/1976 | Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, PVSM, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 11/23/1999 | Vinod Chandra Pandey takes over as the Governor of Bihar. |
| 2/20/2000 | Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court's order quashing charges framed against the former Chief Minister, Mr. S. Bangarappa, and directs the trial court to proceed in the corruption case. |
| 12/6/2000 | The Supreme Court gives a clean chit to former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao upholding the trial court's order, and discharging him and former Union Minister K.K. Tewary from the 'St.Kitts forgery case'. |
| 12/6/2000 | Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
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