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Historical Event on 10/15/1996

Dengue fever in Delhi takes 156 lives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/24/1932Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"".
6/22/1971Habib Muhammad died.
6/8/1915Geeta Rahasya', written by Lokmanya Tilak, published.
1/18/1938The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail.
5/20/1900Sumitranandan Pant was born.
5/5/1977Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party.
11/21/1993India and South Africa sign a historic pact on re-establishing diplomatic and consular relations after a gap of 50 years.
2/18/1823Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born.
11/23/1991Bhaskaracharya Research Institute established at Dhule.
8/9/1942The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'.