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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
2/11/1959Vinoo Mankad plays his final Test Cricket (vs West Indies at Delhi).
9/11/1921Subramania Bharati, freedom fighter, Tamil poet and editor, passed away at an early age of 39.
12/19/1994K. A. P. Vishwanathan, famous Tamil author, passed away.
9/12/1899Vibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, world famous Bengali novelist, was born.
3/21/1993The 68 km Mangalore-Udupi stretch of the west coast Konkan rail line opened by the PM.
4/25/1969Invalappil Mani Vijayan (or better known as IM Vijayan), Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Trissur, Kerala. He was recognised as Indian Player of the Year in 1993, 1997, 1999. He scored the fastest ever International goal against Bhutan at the SAF Games '99, scoring after just 12 seconds.
9/17/1997Kalpakkam Mini Reactor (KAMINI), the only U-233 fuelled operating reactor in the world, attains maximum capacity of 30 KW.
7/23/1903Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903
1/9/1972In 1971, 433 feature films produced in the world with a record and a top position in film production.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.