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Historical Event on 2/15/1992
Sain Swami Gangeshwaranandji, chief of `Udasin Sampraday', passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/20/1957 | Kalinga Prize for 1957 awarded to Lord Bertrand Russell. |
| 10/5/1999 | India decides not to attend the special meet on CTBT. |
| 3/3/1847 | Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 8/1/1947 | Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan. |
| 6/10/1946 | Gandhiji refused to enthuse over allied victory as it was not a ""victory of truth over false-hood"". |
| 6/18/2000 | K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine. |
| 6/19/1990 | 13 Sri Lankan Tamils, including EPRLF Secretary General Padmanabha, were shot dead in Madras reportedly by LTTE men. |
| 1/14/1761 | The third and last battle of Panipat, fought between the Marathas and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abadli, started. The Marathas lost 28,000 soldiers and were virtually routed in North India thus ending the Maratha hegemony. |
| 8/1/1997 | Viswanathan Anand wins the Credit Suisse Masters chess tournament in Beil. |
| 12/21/1911 | Central Bank of India established. |
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