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Historical Event on 10/15/1996
H.D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister, launched the concluding ceremony of the 85th year of ICMR at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. He also gave away the ICMR Prizes and Awards (1994-95) to outstanding bio-medical scientists of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/10/1993 | Helicopters along with the last batch of personnel were ferried out in an AN-12 from Delhi to Mogadishu. These helicopters were provided by 111 HU. |
| 3/22/1991 | President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament. |
| 11/25/1975 | Chandulal Shah, film maker, passed away. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 1/22/1986 | Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Awards instituted. |
| 4/27/1857 | Jamshedji Framji Madan ( J. F. Madan ), founder of India's first Cinema Hall - 'Elphinstone Palace' at Calcutta, Madan & Co. and Parsi Theatrical Company, was born. |
| 1/1/1965 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""Year of International Co-operation"". |
| 2/28/1998 | The third and final phase of polling is held in 131 Lok Sabha constituencies in 10 States and one Union Territory. |
| 3/26/1997 | Andhra Pradesh Assembly passes a Bill to amend the Prohibition Act, ending the state's 2-year experiment with total prohibition. |
| 3/17/1997 | A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI. |
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