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Historical Event on 4/15/1890
Gaganvihari Lalubhai Mehta, famous Indian economist, politician and journalist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/9/1998 | 81 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone. |
| 12/27/1992 | Dhananjay Bhattacharya, famous Bengali singer, died. |
| 4/18/1971 | Gavaskar makes 220 in second innings vs West Indies after 124 in first. |
| 6/30/1981 | President's rule imposed in Assam. |
| 8/27/1978 | Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland. |
| 12/24/1988 | Jaynendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist, died. |
| 7/6/1901 | Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician and leader, was born at Calcutta. He was the founder of the ""Bharatiya Jana Sangh"", of which BJP is the successor party. His father Sir Asutosh was widely known in Bengal. |
| 5/9/1993 | S. Mulgaokar, 82, journalist, passed away. |
| 2/24/1994 | Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%. |
| 9/17/1948 | The Nizam of Hyderabad, in a broadcast, announced ceasefire to his troops and accession into Indian Union, which was settled earlier to the announcement. |
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