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Historical Event on 8/15/2000

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says in his Independence Day address, ""Borders cannot be redrawn either in the name of religion or on the strength of the sword"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/3/1999India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore.
6/9/1992Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP.
12/30/1879Shri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950), modern Hindu Advaita renaissance saint of Maharshi Research Institute, philosopher and yogi, was born in Tiruchuzhi near Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
3/9/199314 bus passengers burnt to death in Andhra .
12/16/1922Parvati Devi, orator, was arrested for delivering revolutionary speeches in meetings at Hapud and Merrut. She was the first Indian women to get two years long imprisionment during the freedom struggle.
4/13/1963Babu Gulab Rai, famous hindi critic, passed away.
5/29/1953Ranji Nanan, cricketer (Trinidad off-spinner, 1 Test v Pakistan 1981), was born.
10/26/1935Ashok P.Jain, great industrialist, was born.
6/16/1990GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops.
11/17/1947Rajendra Prasad elected the President of Indian National Congress.