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Historical Event on 5/15/1817
Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali social reformer and father of Rabindranath Tagore, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/15/1817 | Mughals, under the leadership of Akbar, defeated Hindu ruler Hemu in the second battle of Panipat. |
| 1/6/1979 | Rohini-200, first monsoon experimental rocket, launched from Thumba. |
| 4/17/1923 | Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India. |
| 11/13/1780 | Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ""Lion of Punjab"", was born. |
| 7/31/1997 | V. Thangapandian (64), Tamil Nadu Commercial Taxes Minister, died at Rajapalayam in Virudhunagar district. |
| 3/22/1709 | It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631. |
| 4/2/1953 | Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist and writer, passed away. |
| 11/1/1956 | Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved. |
| 5/25/1886 | Rash Behari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Palara Bighati village, West Bengal. |
| 10/27/1947 | Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir. |
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