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Historical Event on 1/15/1947

Pritish Nandi, famous journalist, was born. Abul Kalam Azad became Minister of Education in the Government of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/22/1991President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament.
4/13/1971Carlton Chapman, Indian Soccer (Football) player, was born in Bangalore, Karnataka.
12/28/1981Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.
7/2/1991Nanankal Krishna Pillai, famous Malyalam poet, died.
12/10/1886Rameshwari Nehru, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Lahore.
4/11/1913Iron ropes bridge known as 'Laxman Jhula' was constructed over Ganga at Hrishikesh 
7/25/1813First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
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.
8/25/1948Jana Gana Mana to be the provisional National Anthem till Constituent Assembly made a final decision.