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Historical Event on 4/15/1948
Purushottamdas Tandon was honoured with the title of 'Rajashri' at a huge rally by Devaraha Baba. He was awarded the Prestigious 'Bharat Ratna' award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/3/1999 | India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana. |
| 6/8/1998 | Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack. |
| 1/2/1964 | Raichaudhary Ambikagiri, nationalist Asamia poet, died. |
| 9/14/1967 | US announces plan to give India $1.3 million to buy contraceptives. |
| 1/4/1998 | V.D.I.S. nets Rs.10,500 crores with Rs 33,000 crore black money disclosed in 4,66,031 declarations made. |
| 6/24/1996 | Cong(I) enters into an electoral alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party for forthcoming Assembly election in UP. |
| 7/22/1997 | Govt. issues notification saying that Prasar Bharati Act, 1990 would come into force from Sept. 15. |
| 8/14/1968 | Pravin Kalyan Amre, cricketer (Indian batsman, century on Test debut 1992), was born in Bombay. |
| 11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
| 7/9/1994 | Surendranath, Governor of Punjab, died. |
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