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Historical Event on 1/15/1929
Dr. Martin Luther King, civil rights leader of the United States of America, freedom fighter and Nobel Prize awardee, was born at America.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/9/1970 | Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi. |
| 12/22/1928 | An Alpine Romance', a 709 feet long sound film produced by Universal Picture Corporation, America, was the first sound film censored at Bombay on December 22. The other sound films censored on the same day were 'The Brox Sisters' and 'Bailey and Barnum.' |
| 5/28/1972 | Edward VIII, King of Great Britain/N Ireland/emperor (India 1936), passed away at the age of 77. |
| 10/28/1997 | Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar (77), Veena maestro, household name among Carnatic music lovers, passed away in Bangalore. |
| 7/19/1938 | Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, great Indian space scientist and mathematician, was born at Kolhapur, Maharashtra. |
| 8/16/1965 | Indian troops cross Kashmir line, seizes two Pakistani outposts. |
| 3/1/1987 | A Pakistani official quoted as saying, ""Pakistan has nuclear bomb capabilities at New Delhi"". |
| 10/14/1919 | Raghu Karmkar, famous cinephotographer, was born. |
| 7/14/1997 | India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting. |
| 5/26/1998 | S. Chandrasekar, scientist, was selected for the Niels Bohr-UNESCO gold medal. |
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