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Historical Event on 4/15/1950

Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested to the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his 'Bhudan Andolan'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/26/1882Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.
7/18/1992Kanandevi, famous Bengali actress, passed away.
8/5/1950Gopinath Bardoloi, architect of modern Assam, freedom fighter and leader, passed away.
12/1/199217 ministers of the BJP government in Rajasthan quit for the 'Karseva' at Ayodhya.
2/1/1931Gandhi chiefs order campaign of civil disobedience to continue.
8/6/1920Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.
1/10/1912Prodosh Kusum Das Gupta, great artist and professor, was born at Dacca, Bangladesh.
9/15/1912Rusi Karanjia, journalist and publisher, was born.
11/21/1963First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme.
1/21/1983R. D. Katari, the first Indian Admiral of Indian Army, passed away.