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Historical Event on 10/15/1997

Arundhati Roy (37), Delhi-based author wins Britain's most prestigious literary award 'Booker Prize' for her novel "The God of Small Things'

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/9/1919Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi.
2/16/1997Tribal militants kill 21 persons in Tripura.
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.
4/29/1979Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away in New Delhi at the age of 93.
7/31/1946Jinnah threatens sanctions of ""Direct Action"".
1/18/1999Gul Panag (20) from Delhi was crowned Femina Miss India Universe at the Miss India 1999 beauty pageant in Pune.
3/10/193917 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India.
7/26/2000The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
9/2/1984Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar.
2/28/2000The Supreme Court orders notice to the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha, on a special leave petition filed by the State Government against the Madras High Court judgment upholding the trial court's order discharging her in the ""coal import case"".