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Historical Event on 8/15/2000
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says in his Independence Day address, ""Borders cannot be redrawn either in the name of religion or on the strength of the sword"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/8/1941 | Sir Jorge Abraham Gearson, philologist and archealogist, passed away. |
| 1/3/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, accuses Pakistan for the hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft. (The crisis ended on Dec. 31 last with the Vajpayee Government agreeing to free three terrorists in exchange for the passengers). |
| 3/25/1933 | Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born. |
| 9/20/1942 | Kanak Lata Barua, a yound child who tried to host the national flag at Goupur police station in Assam with the help of 500 people, was shot by the police station incharge. |
| 12/1/1963 | Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union. |
| 12/1/1963 | Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born. |
| 10/25/2000 | The BJP Legislature Party in UP elects Rajnath Singh its leader. |
| 4/29/1954 | India accepted Tibet as a part of China. |
| 10/2/1979 | Operation (Milk) Flood-II launched. |
| 12/22/1975 | Vishnupant Purshottam Bhagwat, editor, publisher and printer of monthly magzine ""Satyakatha"", d |
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