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Historical Event on 4/15/1948

Purushottamdas Tandon was honoured with the title of 'Rajashri' at a huge rally by Devaraha Baba. He was awarded the Prestigious 'Bharat Ratna' award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/22/1933Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
11/27/1999BJP suspends former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh from the primary membership of the Party for defying Mr. Vajpayee.
1/20/1949Junagarh formally merged with Saurashtra.
9/12/1899Vibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, world famous Bengali novelist, was born.
8/8/2000S.Nijalingappa (97), former Karnataka Chief Minister, died at his residence in Chitradurga.
10/25/1951First General Election of India begins.
7/9/1938Sanjeev Kumar, famous Hindi film actor, was born.
12/28/1885Allian Octavian Hume, a Scotsman, founded National Union and it held its first meeting in Bombay Tejpal Hall. The first session of Indian National Congress started under the Presidentship of Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee.
8/20/1995India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control.