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Historical Event on 8/15/1942

Mahadev Haribhai Desai, an activist and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary, died of heart failure at Aga Khan's Palace.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/21/1995Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
2/11/1818Britishers captured the 'Ajinkyatara' fort which belonged to the Marathas.
2/1/1948Marathi Sanshodhan Mandal' established.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
10/12/1952Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs New Zealand.
6/22/1897The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter.
12/12/1930Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods.
5/21/1973Mohan Kumarmangalam, Central Minister, passed away in an air crash near Delhi.
4/30/1958Shiekh Abdulla taken into custody.
7/4/1986Sunil Gavaskar celebrated his 115th Test in cricket at Edgbaston.