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Historical Event on 10/15/1990

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918), the South African black nationalist leader who arrived in India on a five-day visit. He is the first non-Asian to get this honour.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1966Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union.
8/9/1893Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family.
8/13/1928Nationalists issue a draft constitution calling for dominion status and a two-chamber parliament.
1/1/1980This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"".
3/24/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India.
8/26/1914Bengali revolutionaries looted 46,000 bullet ammunition and pistols from Calcutta Port for their revolutionary activities.
9/11/1911Amarnath Lala, right-hand Indian all-rounder of 30s and 40s, was born at Lahore in Pakistan. He was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1991.
8/5/1909Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh.
5/26/1997Government decides to allow the use of environment-friendly LPG as a motor vehicle fuel.
5/26/1997Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin.