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Historical Event on 8/15/1979

Tukoji Holkar, a leader of Peshwa kingdom, dies.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/19/1704Guru Govind Singh died.
1/1/1948India raised voice against Pakistani infilatration in the country. A complaint was lodged in the Security Council of United Nation on Kashmir invasion.
7/4/1999S. Vijayalakshmi won the National women's `A' chess championship with a round to spare in Kozhikode.
2/11/1997A New Delhi district consumer court holds that provision of drinking water aboard trains is a necessity and it is the duty of the railways to provide it to passengers in reserved compartments.
1/30/1903Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta.
1/18/1998India overtake a Pakistan total of 314 to win one-day final in Dhaka.
8/17/1986In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".
7/22/1998Sahib Singh Verma, Delhi Chief Minister, and BJP vice-president K. L. Sharma are fined Rs. 100 each for riding a motorcycle without helmet in New Delhi.
10/2/1961Indian Limited Shipping Transport Corporation established.
2/10/1927Dashrathi (Dashrathi Krishnamacharya), famous Telgu poet, was born.