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Historical Event on 11/15/1921

16 Gurkha troops killed by anti-British rebels.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
1/19/2000Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship.
12/10/1902Nijalingappa Siddavanahalli, president of Indian National Congress and politician, was born at Haluvagalu (Bellary).
1/10/1932Gandhi and his wife are arrested by the Indian authorities.
5/2/1953Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war.
2/22/1948Jayalalitha, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, was born.
7/20/1991Shanmugam, suspect in Rajiv murder case, found dead.
3/23/1911Indranath Bandopadhyay, Bengali comedy writer and journalist, passed away.
10/22/1947There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government.
10/22/1947Babur's eldest son Humayun ascended the throne. He was, doubtless, a man of parts.