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Historical Event on 4/15/1962

S. S. Khera was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 18-11-1964.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/9/1755E Braddock, British General, was mortally wounded during French & Indian War.
12/17/1933Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut.
10/3/1997Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas.
4/23/1968Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away.
5/25/1924Ashutosh Mukerjee, famous educationalist, passed away in Dumraon at Bihar .
8/5/1907Kashi Nath Pandey, politician and Trade Unionist, was born in Fursatpur Village.
5/25/1894Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away.
2/20/1968Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay.
4/12/1993Indian ship MV Vishva-Mohini sinks off Spain, 33 killed.
5/5/1930Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial. As a result there was ''hartal'' (strike)all over India. Over 100,000 people were jailed before the end of the year.