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Historical Event on 8/15/1979
Tukoji Holkar, a leader of Peshwa kingdom, dies.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1907 | Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions. |
| 12/17/1938 | Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died. |
| 1/27/1999 | P. Krishnamurthy, former Indian wicketkeeper, died in Hyderabad following a cardiac arrest. |
| 11/23/1926 | Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born. |
| 9/6/1995 | Salil Chaudhary, famous music director in Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 4/30/1996 | CBI concludes after 11 1/2 years of investigation that no espionage has taken place in what was dubbed the `ISRO spy scandal case'. |
| 3/24/1991 | Bhau Samarth, internationaly famed painter, passed away. |
| 8/15/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as the first British Governor General of Indian Union and occupied this office till June 20, 1948. |
| 1/5/1948 | Parthasarathy Harishchandra Sharma, cricketer (Indian batsman of the mid-70's), was born in Alwar, Rajasthan. |
| 11/16/1988 | India gives full recognition to the state of Palestine. |
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