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Historical Event on 11/15/1817
Battle of Yerwada.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/19/2000 | Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades. |
| 9/2/1976 | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, famous marathi story writer, novelist and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away. |
| 2/10/1986 | Pope John Paul II ends visit to India. |
| 7/24/1997 | Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali. |
| 4/18/1931 | Lord Willingdon took over as the Viceroy of India. |
| 7/14/1963 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, passed away. |
| 7/12/1999 | Rajendra Kumar (71), legendary actor who acted in over 150 Hindi films, died in Mumbai. |
| 8/1/1963 | Soviets offer India arms to block China. |
| 10/16/1788 | Maratha's crowned Shahaalam as king of Delhi. |
| 10/18/1968 | Narendra Deepchand Hirwani, cricketer (Ind leggie 16 wickets vs WI on debut in 1988), was born in Gorakhpur. |
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