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Historical Event on 1/15/1998
Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/12/1997 | Paes-Bhupathi win doubles title in the Singapore Open Challenger hardcourt tennis. |
| 1/12/1997 | Sher 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). |
| 2/18/1905 | Indian Home Rule Society was founded at London by Shyamji Krishna Varma. |
| 3/13/1992 | Indumati Ramkrishna Shevde, famous writer, critic and painter, passed away. |
| 8/9/1996 | Unofficial estimates put black money in the country at Rs. 70,000 crore, i.e. 6\% of GDP. |
| 4/11/1856 | Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born. |
| 1/16/1992 | For the first time in a decade, India decides to import one million tonnes of wheat. |
| 1/17/1913 | Yadvendra Singh, HH LtG. Maharaja of Patial, cricketer (scored 24 & 60 in only Test India vs England), was born in Patiala, Punjab. |
| 4/22/1993 | Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike. |
| 11/9/1924 | Pandit C. R. Vyas, veteran singer, was born. |
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