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Historical Event on 12/15/1976

Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/14/1958Dr. C.V. Raman receives the Lenin Peace Prize in Kremlin.
8/18/1957Tilak Raj was appointed the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed his office for four years till 6th September, 1961.
6/1/1998The Prasar Bharati Bill is introduced in the Lok Sabha to revive the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990.
12/20/1876Bankinchrandra Chattopadhyay wrote ""Vande Mataram"".
1/12/1757Captain Eyre Coote from the Portuguese was captured in Bandel.
8/19/1927Ananta Narsinha Naik, social reformer and politician, was born at Bandora, Goa.
7/13/1912Shriman Narayan, educationist, administrator and diplomat, was born in Etawah, U.P.
11/25/1879Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement.
4/19/1993Sanjay Dutt, film star, was held under TADA for possessing an AK-56 rifle.
8/9/1942The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'.