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Historical Event on 8/15/1996
Deve Gowda speaks in Hindi on the occasion of the 50th Independence Day.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/16/1976 | Jalgaon Radio Station started broadcasting. |
| 9/29/1999 | Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister, meet his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz meet at the SAARC ministerial meeting. |
| 1/1/1995 | 8th World Tamil Conference begins in Madurai. |
| 12/13/1955 | India and the USSR affirm the Panchsheel. |
| 11/19/1999 | New Governors for Bihar, West Bengal, Goa, Manipur and Punjab are named by the Rashtrapati Bhavan. |
| 4/12/1992 | The 350-tonne Buddha statue salvaged from the Hussain Sagar where it had sunk in 1990. |
| 3/12/1938 | Vijay Laxman Mehra, cricketer (Indian Test batsman from age 17), was born in Amritsar. |
| 7/25/1988 | Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. |
| 9/10/1999 | Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final. |
| 5/17/1916 | Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore. |
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