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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 |
| 3/26/1942 | Indira Gandhi, third Prime Minister of India, was married to Feroze Gandhi. |
| 8/19/1947 | Vinayak Damodar Karnataki (Master Vinayak), famous Marathi actor, director and producer, died. |
| 6/30/1981 | President's rule imposed in Assam. |
| 12/28/1998 | India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past. |
| 8/6/1965 | Indian troops invade Pakistan. |
| 9/1/1999 | The Congress(I) President, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, launches a broadside against the Vajpayee Government on handling of Kargil issue. |
| 12/31/1706 | Francois Martin, founder of Pondicherry and was its first Governor General, died. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674. |
| 7/1/1929 | Ramchandra Ganpatrao Shinde, educationist, was born at Burhanpur, (M.P.). |
| 8/23/1995 | First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta. |
| 12/27/1988 | The first hot-air Cross India Balloon started its flight in Rajasthan. |
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