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Historical Event on 4/15/1948

Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh was created by the merger of some 30 small ruling states.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/19/1916Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India, was born.
7/1/1879Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department.
1/10/1998Nine Ranbir Sena supporters are killed in an ambush at Rampurchauram village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.
9/6/1990Prasar Bharti' bill passed in Parliament.
9/9/1942Shirish Kumar, martyr, died.
4/5/1944221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.
8/3/1930Jai Prakash, educationist, was born at Jaunpur.
7/20/1916Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai.
9/26/1904R. V. Jagirdar, famous Kannad play writer, was born.
9/28/1827A few mountain battery trains flourished and kept the Indian component alive as part of the Royal artillery. Recently, it has been established that 8 Company Bombay Artillery survived axing and is now 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery. This day is now celebrated as the Raising Day of the Regiment of Artillery.