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Historical Event on 11/15/1993
IA Airbus with 272 on board forcelands on a paddy field near Tirupati; all passengers safe.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/17/1992 | 20 members of the Janata Dal led by Ajit Singh break away from the parent body seeking separate seats in the Lok Sabha. |
| 2/11/1861 | Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay was born in Khanyan village of Bengal. |
| 2/25/1992 | Railway budget proposes 20\% hike in upper class passenger fares. |
| 4/11/1906 | K.V. Jagannathan, great Hindi writer and journalist, was born at Krishnarayapuram,Tamil Nadu. |
| 5/11/1919 | Troops under General Barrett inflicted a sharp reverse today on the invading Afghans at Bagh Springs. The whole of the frontier area was up in arms with tribesmen threatening Landi Khotal and martial law being proclaimed in Peshawar. It was expected however that General Barrett, well equipped with guns and airplanes, would soon control the situation. Reports had been reaching London for some time about the possibility of an Afghan incursion following the murder of the pro-British Emir Habibullah. His third son, Amanullah Khan, who took over the throne, was known to be hostile toward the government of India. |
| 2/2/1982 | Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras. |
| 7/31/1912 | Allan Octavian, great social reformer, patriot, lawyer, journalist and politician, passed away at the age of 84. |
| 7/24/2000 | S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad. |
| 1/15/1929 | Dr. Martin Luther King, civil rights leader of the United States of America, freedom fighter and Nobel Prize awardee, was born at America. |
| 9/27/1833 | Raja Rammohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician passed away at Stapleton Grove in England. |
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