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Historical Event on 1/15/1996

Restoration of the original name of the city as ""Mumbai"" for Bombay Vide Maharashtra Act No, XXV of 1996.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/11/1923Shamasunder Gururaj Mudgal, great educationist, was born at Bijapur, Bagalkot.
8/19/1993Y. D. Lokurkar, senior journalist, died.
4/5/1990Lok Sabha passes the Punjab Bill.
2/20/1953India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA.
10/31/1999Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award.
10/31/1999Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
8/15/1772Divani and Faujdary courts seperated by East India Company.
7/6/1917Bhandarkar Prachyavidya Sanshodhak Mandir' was established.
2/11/1979Shankarrao Narayanrao Mohite Patil `Sahakari Maharshi' passed away.
1/15/1919Ahmed Mohammad Mamsa, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1963-73, was born at Mumbai.