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Historical Event on 11/15/1992

Praveen Amre scores century (103) on Test Cricket debut vs South Africa at Durban

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/5/1980Manipur University was established.
10/27/1920Kocheril Raman Narayanan was born in the village of Uzhavoor in Kottayam district, Kerala.
5/31/1973Mohan Kumaramangalam, Central Minister, died in an air crash near Delhi.
8/13/1997Supreme Court lays down guidelines and norms for the effective enforcement of the basic human right of gender equality and guarantee against sexual harassment at work places.
2/19/1986Computerised railway ticket reservation system was introduced in New Delhi Railway station.
7/6/1999The Indian High Commission staff member Yog Raj Vij, who was beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operatives, is released. India strongly condemns this assault.
4/12/1997Maharashtra assembly adopts bill banning interviews for admitting students to pre-primary schools.
6/18/1966California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else.
4/4/1998G. Sarala Devi, 62, CPI leader and general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women, passed away in Hyderabad.
9/22/1994G. N. Joshi, famous singer, died.