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Historical Event on 6/15/1948

Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/30/1986Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
12/20/1757Clauk became Governor of Bengal.
3/3/1978Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Calender started.
2/14/1755Raghuji Bhosle, great fighter of Bhosle gharana in Nagpur, passed away.
8/17/1986In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".
2/24/1988Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
2/25/2000The Supreme Court stays the Madras High Court order discharging the former Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo, Ms. Jayalalitha, from the two TANSI deal cases.
8/11/1956The Lok Sabha passed the States Reorganisation Act.
10/12/1976Indian Airlines Caravelle crashed after take off from Bombay.
5/18/1974First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.