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Historical Event on 10/15/1676

King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/2/2000The Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry clears Ms. Deepa Mehta's film ''Water'' after the director agreed to make some changes in the script.
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3/2/1913Bhavaniprasad Mishra was born.
8/25/1999Former Indian Davis Cup captain Narendra Nath died in Delhi.
8/1/1953All Private Airlines were nationalised by establishing of All Airlines India International.
11/5/1956University Grants Commission Act sets up UGC.
10/15/1992Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab.
10/1/1993The IAF joined in peace keeping duties in Somalia as part of the Indian contingent supporting UN operations.
11/1/1956Indian 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.
12/8/1999Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999.