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Historical Event on 8/15/1997
K.Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open Chess tournament.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 3/17/1987 | Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak. |
| 1/30/1785 | Sir Charles Metkaff, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 2/1/1901 | Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded. |
| 7/24/1991 | Union budget imposes all-round price hike. |
| 5/27/1857 | Nana Sahib was captured at Kanpur. |
| 2/12/1996 | President S.D. Sharma in Kerala. |
| 4/30/1870 | Dadasaheb Phalke alias Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke was born at Trymbakeshwar near Nasik, Maharashtra. He is remembered as the 'Father of Indian Cinema'. He produced India's first feature Film, 'Raja Harishchandra' and founded Phalke & Co. at Bombay. He was a director, producer, writer, editor & laboratorian, portrait photographer and also a scene-painter. |
| 10/27/1973 | The first Ladies Police Station started functioning at Calicut in Kerala. |
| 12/25/1972 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker, eminent litterateur, first Indian Governor General and the founder President of Swatantra Party, passed away. |
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