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Historical Event on 12/15/1997

Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/3/1999Flight Lieutenant K. Nachiketa is handed over by the International Committee of the Red Cross to the Indian High Commissioner inside the High Commission premises.
1/26/1957Ashok Omprakash Malhotra, cricketer (Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84), was born in Amritsar.
1/23/1978The motto ""Shastra se Shakti"" (Strength though arms) in Hindi written in Devengiri script was approved by the President of India as the motto of the Army Ordnance Corps.The original corps motto of the Ordnance corps was ""Usa Tela Tananti"" found in the arms of the board of Ordnance. This was translated to mean ""To the thunder his arms"". The corps song titled ""Ayudh Corps Mahan"" was introduced for the first time in 4th re-union of the Army Ordnance Corps. The song is to be played or sung ""within unit lines only"", during purely Regimental functions.
3/22/1902Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph.
8/28/1906Chintamani Govind (Mama Pendse), great actor, was born.
11/19/1991Kashinath Anant (Rambhau Joshi), famous editor, passed away.
9/2/1946Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.
9/23/1999India rejects Pakistan's proposal for an international conference on arms control.
1/18/1994Narasimha Rao decides to retain Veerappa Moily as Karnataka CM.
2/4/1990Ernakulam was declared the first totally literate district in India.