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Historical Event on 5/15/1878
Sivnath Shastri and Ananda Mohan Bose, under the leadership of the younger group of Brahmo Sama, rebelled and started Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/24/1991 | The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP. |
| 1/15/1888 | Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar. |
| 1/16/1996 | Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership. |
| 2/26/1858 | Diwan Maniram and Piali Barua were hanged. (Grandson of Purandara Simha, the last Ahom king of Assam). |
| 2/18/1911 | Captain Vasudev Belwalkar, who had also written the novels on history and war, was born. |
| 7/4/1995 | Rajan Pillai, business tycoon and biscuit king of India, who was convicted by a Singapore court for multi-million dollar fraud, was arrested in New Delhi. |
| 10/9/2000 | The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle. |
| 6/6/1994 | The 20-day old Limboo Ministry in Sikkim wins vote of confidence. |
| 12/24/2000 | Viswanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win a world chess title in the world chess championship in Taheran. |
| 7/23/1918 | Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh. |
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