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Historical Event on 3/15/1941

Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was raised as the 4th Battalion, the 2nd King Edward VII's own Gorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) by Lt Col O'de T Lovett at Deharadun.

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9/29/1959Arati Saha successfully swam the English Channel. She was the first Asian lady to achieve the feat.
10/19/1921Pandurangshastri Athvle, founder of 'Swadhyay Pariwar', was born.
4/26/1990V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh.
12/24/1762Gopalrao defeated in the battle of Jamkhindi.
2/7/1992Shalki', the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy.
8/27/1978Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland.
2/1/194217 Indian Division's were withdrawn over vast stretches and the British evacuation in Burma was the longest in British military history. The Division was to subsequently extract terrible retribution from the Japanese Army during World War II and to destabilise the Indian Economy with forged notes of 5, 10 and 100 Rupees.