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Historical Event on 8/15/1997

K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/20/1948Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
8/6/1996SC asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to I.T. department.
3/2/1913Bhavaniprasad Mishra was born.
4/26/1999India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner.
12/1/1942No. 8 Squadron was raised meanwhile, absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel.
7/15/1997Mahesh Chander Mehta, Environmental activist, wins Ramon Magsaysay Award.
8/23/1994Arati Gupta (Saha) succumbed to an incurable jaundice. (29-9-99).
8/29/1997B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
9/9/1993Narsimha Rao, Prime Minister, arrived in Seoul for a three-day visit.
12/30/1865Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay.