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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
4/22/1994Chabbildas Mehta sworn in as Gujarat CM.
8/20/1955Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists.
7/26/2000The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
6/23/1985Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died.
11/19/1924Amarjit Singh, great educationist and scientist, was born at Punjab.
11/22/1913Lakshmikant Jha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state and international famed ecomonist, was born.
3/31/1935374 infants wed at a mass ceremony.
2/18/1944Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Institute' established.
4/14/1944Blast in ammunition loaded on 1,318 tonned freighter 'S. S. Fort Stikine' which was anchored in Victoria Dock at Bombay. The explosion killed 1376 people, wrecking 27 ships and destroying 40,000 tons of food.
3/26/1996The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it.