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Historical Event on 3/15/1908

Police shoot four people in rioting.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
9/17/1948The Nizam of Hyderabad, in a broadcast, announced ceasefire to his troops and accession into Indian Union, which was settled earlier to the announcement.
7/27/1998B. B. Lyngdoh is sworn in Meghalaya Chief Minister.
5/14/1992LTTE banned in India.
8/4/1933Gandhi is imprisoned for one year for breaking a restraint order.
5/26/1935Swami Mrigendra Channaya, great Social Scientist in Maharashtra, was born.
3/21/1939Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow.
12/7/1992Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shooted and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha.
11/10/1901Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab.
9/5/1979Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma.