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Historical Event on 1/15/1888

Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/30/1989Waman Ganpat Behre `Sobat', editor of weekly, passed away.
3/17/1910Smt. Anutai Wagh, great social worker, passed away.
10/30/1887Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born.
2/4/1993D. C. Kothari, famous scientist and educationalist, passed away.
6/9/1957General Election ( 2nd) of India ends.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
2/9/1993Congress (I), AIADMK alliance in Tamil Nadu breaks over Hindi imposition.
4/27/1996General Election (11th) of India begins.
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
11/17/1932The Third Round Table Conference began in London. It was not attended by the Congress as the real Indian participation in the making of the constitution was negligible. Since Gandhi was in prison because of his civil disobedience movement he could not attend it either. This conference ended on 24th November 1932 without achieving anything.