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Historical Event on 10/15/1676
King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/16/1932 | Sibnath Banerjee, trade union movement leader, passed away. He founded several organisation like Congress Socialist Party, A.I.T.U.C. and Hind Mazdoor Sabha, etc. |
| 3/20/1965 | Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
| 9/25/1990 | Sabyasachi Mukherji, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, aged 63, died in London. |
| 1/10/1993 | 24th International Film Festival of India opens in New Delhi. |
| 9/1/1893 | Kashinath Tryambak Telang, first Maharashtrian Chief Justice of Mumbai High Court, died. |
| 9/2/1998 | Nishant, the pilotless training aircraft developed by DRDO, is successfully flown from Chandipore. |
| 8/17/1958 | Sir John Hubert Marshal, excavator of Mohan-Jo-Daro and Takshashila, died. |
| 3/28/1995 | Haridev Joshi, former Chief Minister of Rajasthan and former Governor of Assam Meghalay, passed away. |
| 3/14/1995 | Keshubai Patel (Gujarat), J.B. Patnaik (Orissa) and Manohar Joshi, the 12th (Maharashtra) CMs, elected. |
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