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Historical Event on 11/15/1992
Praveen Amre scores century (103) on Test Cricket debut vs South Africa at Durban
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/1/1854 | Postal 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. |
| 4/17/1975 | Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, India's second president, died at Madras. |
| 8/18/1891 | Jain Muni Mishrimalji, poet, social reformer and orator, was born at Pali, Rajasthan. |
| 1/1/1975 | Shankarrao Vasudev Kirloskar, famous iindustrialist, died. |
| 1/10/1963 | Gold Control Measures Plan was started by the Government of India. |
| 2/14/1998 | 13 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed. |
| 12/29/1968 | Chunilal Kalidas Madiya, famous Gujrathi playwright, story writer and novelist, died. |
| 11/18/1997 | School bus plunges into the Yamuna killing 28 Delhi children. |
| 4/30/1870 | Dadasaheb Phalke alias Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke was born at Trymbakeshwar near Nasik, Maharashtra. He is remembered as the 'Father of Indian Cinema'. He produced India's first feature Film, 'Raja Harishchandra' and founded Phalke & Co. at Bombay. He was a director, producer, writer, editor & laboratorian, portrait photographer and also a scene-painter. |
| 1/6/1983 | Indian National Congress lost for the first time in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka State Assembly Elections. |
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