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Historical Event on 4/15/1998
Punjab men and Railways women emerge champions in the National Volleyball League in Patna.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/16/1997 | Saidian Shafi, correspondent, Ankhon Dekhi', TV news magazine, and his personal security officer killed by militants in Srinagar. |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
| 11/7/1991 | Salauddin and his wife Neena create a world record by travelling in a Nissan car. |
| 1/15/1965 | Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras. |
| 5/20/1992 | V. Prabhakaran, LTTE supremo, heads the list of 41 accused in the SIT chargesheet. |
| 1/2/1991 | Thiruvananthapuram airport declared India's fifth International Airport. |
| 10/10/1957 | Jagdeep', a children's film, won the first prize at the Ninth International Exhibition of Films for Children at Venice. |
| 1/20/1879 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous Assamia nature poet, was born. |
| 1/24/1924 | Karpoori Thakur ""Jan Nayak"", freedom fighter, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, was born in village Samastipur, District Bihar. |
| 9/23/1999 | India rejects Pakistan's proposal for an international conference on arms control. |
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