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Historical Event on 8/15/1955
Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/12/1957 | Sahajada Karim became Aga Khan. |
| 10/15/1977 | The Congress party denies bid by Indira Gandhi to regain leadership. |
| 7/20/1993 | Chander Mohan, son of Haryana CM Bhajanlal, wins the by-elections in the Kalka assembly constitutency by a margin of 61,800 votes. |
| 9/2/1996 | Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva. |
| 5/17/1957 | Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests. |
| 4/7/1997 | NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi. |
| 8/11/1984 | A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud. |
| 2/1/1988 | The first Congress of the Indian Dental Association begins. (28-1-88). |
| 11/27/1984 | Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay. |
| 3/9/1931 | The Tories decide not to attend future round table talks on India in London. |
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