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Historical Event on 5/15/1878
Sivnath Shastri and Ananda Mohan Bose, under the leadership of the younger group of Brahmo Sama, rebelled and started Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.
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| 2/9/1942 | Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India. |
| 7/30/1960 | Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, great freedom fighter, leader and 'Lion of Karnataka', 0died. He was a loyal Congress leader. |
| 3/3/1885 | Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt). |
| 5/25/1996 | Maharashta govt. announces decision to revive Sri Krishna Commission set up to probe the 1993 Mumbai riots. |
| 11/8/1991 | K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab. |
| 7/1/1965 | Meerut University was established. |
| 4/10/1993 | Student hijackers of IA plane overpowered in Lucknow. |
| 4/11/1931 | Mahendranath Yeshwant Gupte, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1984-85, was born at Mumbai. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 3/4/2000 | Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980. |
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