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Historical Event on 3/15/1969

Indian Navy's first Helicopter Squadron was commissioned in Goa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/30/1950Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
11/7/1998Jiwan Singh Umrangal (84), Akali leader and former Punjabi Minister, dies in hospital in Beas.
6/27/1964Teen Murti Bhavan, official residence of the Prime Minister of India, became the Nehru Memorial Museum.
6/2/2000Justice A. M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India, appointed Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award.
1/1/1975Shankarrao Vasudev Kirloskar, famous iindustrialist, died.
9/16/1913Kasturba Gandhi was arrested.
12/19/19842,500 killed in Bhopal gas tragedy.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
11/15/1911First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.
9/9/1997Designated court decides to frame charges against 49 persons, including Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray, BJP president L. K. Advani and former U.P. Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, in cases relating to Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.