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Historical Event on 8/15/1997
IWM Vijayalakshmi wins Asian Zonal Women's Chess tournament in Tehran.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/9/1996 | Unofficial estimates put black money in the country at Rs. 70,000 crore, i.e. 6\% of GDP. |
| 6/1/1842 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born. |
| 2/24/1922 | Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab. |
| 11/7/1995 | India opens second consulate in UK in Glasgow (first being at Birmingham). |
| 1/12/1869 | Dr. Bhagavan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur, was born at Varanasi. |
| 11/14/1995 | Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court. |
| 1/6/1932 | Kamleshwar, famous Hindi writer, was born. |
| 8/3/1930 | Vyanktesh Bapuji Ketkar, famous astrologist and researcher, died. |
| 9/29/1992 | Andhra CM Janardhana Reddy resigned. |
| 1/10/1975 | India accords recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization. |
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