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Historical Event on 6/15/1659
Aurangzeb was declared as the Emperor of India at Red Fort Delhi.
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| 1/25/1983 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Acharya Vinobha Bhave (Posthumous) (1895-1982). |
| 9/30/1922 | Bakhshish Singh Nijjar, great historian and author, was born at Domeli village (Punjab). |
| 6/3/1901 | Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, was born. He was the first winner of the conveted Gyaanpeeth Award in 1965 for his poems "Odakkuzhal" in Malayalam. |
| 2/14/1628 | 5th Mughal Emperor Shahjahan was crowned. |
| 12/30/1865 | Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay. |
| 3/27/2000 | After more than two-and-a-half-years, a Delhi court resumes trial in the St. Kitts forgery case following Delhi High Court's order upholding the lower court's verdict on framing of charges. |
| 9/5/1918 | Ratanji Jamshetji Tata, famous Indian industrialist and social reformer, died. |
| 12/11/1958 | Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship. |
| 3/17/1882 | Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern Marathi language, passed away. |
| 5/16/1994 | Phani Mujumdar, veteran film producer and director, passed away. |
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