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Historical Event on 8/15/1990
India successfully test fires 'Akash', an advanced medium range surface to air missile.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/13/1830 | Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Alexander Duff, in 1921 Scottish Church College, General Assembly s Institution was established with only five students, where teaching of the Bible took an important part. |
| 1/16/1941 | Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born. |
| 5/1/2000 | Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta. |
| 6/5/1980 | Manipur University was established. |
| 9/23/1999 | India rejects Pakistan's proposal for an international conference on arms control. |
| 1/30/1996 | Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard. |
| 6/3/1912 | Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, great industrialist, was born. |
| 3/11/1963 | First Railway Engine was produced by Chittaranjan Railway Factory. |
| 9/18/1925 | Pranlal Harkisandas Vora, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 1/28/1961 | Foundation-stone of the first factory of H.M.T. wrist watches laid in Bangalore. |
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