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Historical Event on 8/15/1955

Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/25/1999India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.
9/14/1971Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died.
1/22/1989DMK swept to power in Tamil Nadu Assembly election.
1/17/1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.
1/16/1938Sarat Chandra Chatterji, famous Bengali novelist and writer, passed away.
8/29/1947A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.
10/13/1998India, Mauritius sign an agreement on civil aviation in New Delhi in the presence of its two Prime Ministers.
9/22/1970Bandopadhyay Shardendu, modern Bengali poet, died.
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.
3/9/1997Bangladesh and Chakma refugee leaders sign a historic agreement for repatriation of the 50,000 refugees sheltered in six camps in Tripura for the past 11 years.