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Historical Event on 1/15/1888
Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/11/2000 | Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"". |
| 4/20/1960 | Pannalal Ghosh, famous flute player, passed away. |
| 12/19/1860 | Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of India (1848-1856), died. |
| 3/24/1987 | First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching. |
| 5/10/1979 | Indy Khabra, Soccer(Football) player, was born. |
| 10/12/1921 | Jayant Shridhar Tilak, great journalist, was born at Poona. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 5/21/1990 | PM V. P. Singh clears the Rs. 13,000 crore Sardar Sarovar Project over the river Narmada. |
| 3/9/1974 | Guru Amudan Sharma, famous Manipuri dance master, passed away. |
| 6/21/1998 | India and Russia sign a $2.5-billion deal to set up a nuclear power station at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu. |
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