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Historical Event on 1/15/1965

Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/1/1916Lokmanya Tilak roared ''Freedom is by birthright'' at Ahmednagar.
2/26/1887Sir Benegal Narsingh Rao, an eminent lawyer and political leader, was born. He was the first Indian President of UN Security Council in 1950.
9/19/1726Khandoballal died.
3/17/1997A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
3/15/1941Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was raised as the 4th Battalion, the 2nd King Edward VII's own Gorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) by Lt Col O'de T Lovett at Deharadun.
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.
10/14/1999Sheikh Shamim, an Indian, is hanged for espionage in Pakistan.
3/24/1991Bhau Samarth, internationaly famed painter, passed away.
8/15/1867Bhartendu Harishchandra publishes a Hindi monthly 'Kavi Vachan Sudha'.