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Historical Event on 8/15/1994
At Churchgate railway station on platform No.1, noted film actor A.K. Hangal signalled the start of theatre in a train by waving a green flag.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/21/1952 | The XV Indian Olympic Games in Madras. |
| 11/18/1901 | V. Shantaram alias Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, famous film maker and actor (Chitrapat Maharashi), was born. |
| 7/18/1947 | Indian Independence Act, signed by King George VI, was proclaimed as Indian Freedom Act, 1947. |
| 2/12/1882 | Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born. |
| 1/6/1989 | Lord Sudhindra Prasanna Sinha died. |
| 2/7/1999 | Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble became the second only bowler in Test history after J.C. Laker (England) to take all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan in the second Test in Delhi. |
| 4/13/1796 | The first elephant was brought to America from Bengal, India. |
| 6/8/1999 | ATP announced Paes-Bhupathi as No. 1 ranked doubles team. In individual doubles ranking, Bhupathi and Paes were No. 1 and 2 respectively. |
| 2/7/1993 | Medium-range surface to surface missile, 'Prithvi' successfully launched for the 10th time. |
| 11/17/1932 | The Third Round Table Conference began in London. It was not attended by the Congress as the real Indian participation in the making of the constitution was negligible. Since Gandhi was in prison because of his civil disobedience movement he could not attend it either. This conference ended on 24th November 1932 without achieving anything. |
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