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Historical Event on 8/15/1996

Deve Gowda speaks in Hindi on the occasion of the 50th Independence Day.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/2000Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.
11/8/1991K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab.
8/20/1955Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists.
1/1/1948Orissa High Court was established at Cuttack for Orissa territory.
8/7/1887Kasturi Shriniwas Iyengar, politician and journalist, was born.
9/29/2000India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.
9/1/1908Amir Elahi, right-hand batsman and right-arm leg-break bowler, born at Multan in Lahore.
3/31/1904British slaughter hundreds of Tibetans.
1/17/1981Central Government offers full statehood to Mizoram.
9/24/1997I. K. Gujral, Prime Minister, addresses UN General Assembly, stakes India's claim to UN Security Council seat.