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Historical Event on 8/15/1965
Television starts in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/16/1896 | Jaideva Singh, famous musician and educationist, was born Shohratgarh, U.P. |
| 8/15/1993 | Five more Doordarshan channels launched. |
| 12/15/1912 | Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born. |
| 2/8/1971 | Indira Congress wins the mid-term elections for Lok Sabha. Indira Gandhi becomes PM. |
| 12/3/1971 | Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies. |
| 7/7/1946 | Gandhiji addressed the A.I.C.C. meeting at Bombay; Congress accepted the Cabinet Mission plan of May 16. |
| 7/29/1987 | India and Sri Lanka sign peace accord at Colombo in a bid to end the 5-year old ethnic trouble. This stance taken thereafter by the LTTE added several dimensions to the scenario. It was a multi-purpose role that the Navy has been required to play. |
| 1/8/1993 | Dr. P.C. Alexander appointed Governor of Maharashtra. |
| 6/1/1997 | Ghulam Rasool Wani, National Conference leader, kidnapped and shot dead by militants at Kaskot in Doda district, Jammu. |
| 10/24/1995 | Total solar eclipse seen over Rajasthan, UP, Bihar and West Bengal, while partial eclipse seen in the rest of the country. |
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