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Historical Event on 1/15/1887

Shri Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary, freedom fighter and a great native poet, was born in village Angaluru, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/26/1931Vijay Laxman Manjrekar, cricketer (father of Sanjay, reliable Indian batsman), was born in Bombay.
11/24/1930Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar, cricketer ( wicket keeper in one Test India vs NZ 1955-56), was born in Pen, Maharashtra.
9/10/1920Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away.
7/25/1991Dr. V. K. R. V. Rao, famous economist and former central minister, passed away.
9/23/1908Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi poet, was born.
6/21/1930Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob.
3/14/1999Arjun Atwal won the Indian Open Golf in Calcutta.
1/4/1889Judge M. Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India, was born.
1/15/1949General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day.
1/8/1984Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74.