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Historical Event on 7/15/1997

Mahesh Chander Mehta, Environmental activist, wins Ramon Magsaysay Award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1707Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.
3/21/1996Supreme Court holds that attempt to suicide and its abetment would continue to be punishable offences.
6/22/1993The centre bans the use of 12 pesticides.
5/5/1998Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case.
6/1/1996H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in.
7/25/1987Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992.
3/22/1933M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.
6/2/1992The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam.
5/17/2000The Union Cabinet clears a proposal for setting up a new appellate tribunal for foreign exchange following the repeal of the FERA and the enactment of FEMA in its place.
1/3/1945No. 8 Squadron becomes the first to convert onto the Spitfire VIII during the previous month and commencing operations on 3 January 1945 in the Kangaw area.