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Historical Event on 1/15/1977

Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui, modern Urdu writer, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/5/1999India decides not to attend the special meet on CTBT.
10/30/1889Acharya Narendra Deo, educationist, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Sitapur, U.P.
11/17/1994North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council.
2/19/200018 people die following a fire on the Ferozepur-bound 2137-down Punjab Mail between Dushkeda and Savada stations near Bhusaval, about 433 km from Mumbai.
2/16/1931Viceroy Lord Irwin meets Mahatma Gandhi for the first time.
1/11/1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
5/19/2000A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency.
8/14/1896Gandhiji published ""The Green Pamphlet"" at Rajkot and then toured to Bombay, Madras, Poona and Calcutta educating Indians in regard to grievances of South African Indians.
12/27/1988The first hot-air Cross India Balloon started its flight in Rajasthan.
9/5/1846Sir Charles Metkaf, Governor General of East India Company, died.