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Historical Event on 8/15/1872

Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.

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11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
4/16/1976The govt. announces its new birth-control program to curb population growth.
10/18/19921,000 police personnel occupy the Golden Temple in Amritsar to keep Punjab separatists away.
12/10/1967Earthquake hit Koyna Nagar.
1/14/1982First Antarctic Expedition on December 1981-Jan 1982; group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim reached Antarctica successfully.
6/20/1957Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died.
10/12/1998Sushma Swaraj is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister in place of Mr. Sahib Singh Verma
12/17/1929Bhagat Singh and Rajguru killed Sanders, Asst. Suprintendent of Police.
9/26/1996High Court rejected Rao's petition for anticipatory bail in Pathak cheating case.
12/21/1788Sindhia arrested Gulam Qadir and killed him.