Jacksonville Indian Community - JacksonvilleIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 12/15/1957

60 Harijans enter the Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/2/1956Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).
2/28/1997Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presents an action-packed budget for 1997-98.
5/25/1997Seven Pakistani infiltrators are killed in an encounter with BSF in Ranbir Singh Pora.
12/10/1996Supreme Court bans employment of child labour in hazardous industries.
1/10/1996Centre sets up Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission.
8/1/200027 'yatris' (travelers) die after militants attack a ''langar'' in a Pahalgam health resort en route to the Amarnath cave shrine.
12/23/1954Judge Bijan Kumar Mukherjea became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 31/01/1956.
7/25/1997Kocheril Raman Narayanan (K. R. Narayanan) became the 10th President of India.
11/15/192116 Gurkha troops killed by anti-British rebels.
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.