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Historical Event on 11/15/2000
India cancels cricket series with Pakistan in January next on account of Islamabad's ''hostile propaganda''.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/15/1996 | Victoria Terminus (VT) station in Mumbai renamed Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus by the Centre. |
| 9/10/1976 | An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan. |
| 8/9/1952 | New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures. |
| 10/5/1989 | Dalai Lama was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize (1989). |
| 9/11/1913 | Waman Ganesh Talwalkar, Marathi journalist and story writer, was born. |
| 1/11/1859 | Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born. |
| 9/23/1980 | Indira Gandhi gains power to imprison without trial. |
| 5/8/1906 | Prannath Thapar, former General of India, was born. |
| 1/27/1931 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign. |
| 9/12/1994 | UN Secretary General Ghali visits New Delhi. |
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