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Historical Event on 4/15/1947
Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/24/1903 | Hemchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
| 8/15/1947 | India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries. |
| 3/5/1992 | Sunder, comedy actor, passed away. |
| 3/25/1991 | 1991 census report released; India has 844 million people. |
| 8/1/1988 | Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991. |
| 1/18/1968 | The Resolution on Official Languages was passed by both the houses of the Parliament wherin the need to formulate a more intensive and comprehensive programme for the progressive use of Hindi for Official purposes, preparing annual assessment report for reviewing the progress, formulating a programme for the co-ordinated development of the other languages included in the 8th schedule alongwith Hindi, adopting of a tri-langual formula, making the knowledge of either Hindi or English compulsory for recruitment to the services of the Union, and inclusion of all the languages of the 8th schedule of the Constitution and English as the optional medium for the exams conducted by the union Public Service Commission at the appropriate time, has been stressed. |
| 10/12/1921 | Jayant Shridhar Tilak, great journalist, was born at Poona. |
| 5/10/1977 | Jahangir Khan, famous musician, passed away. |
| 10/27/1982 | Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died. |
| 6/6/1981 | The worst-ever railway accident took place in Bihar when a train plunged in Samastipur river. |
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