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Historical Event on 8/15/1872
Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.

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8/13/1928	Nationalists issue a draft constitution calling for dominion status and a two-chamber parliament.
5/21/1994	JKLF leader Mohammed Yasim Malik agrees to eschew violence provided the Centre guarantees a dialogue without pre-conditions.
10/20/1981	21-month-old Left United Front Ministry led by E. K. Nayanar resigns in Kerala.
4/10/1997	Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.
5/30/1950	Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
4/7/1998	Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India.
4/1/1933	Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.
7/26/1844	Gooroodas Banerjee was born in Calcutta. He was a Judge of Calcutta High Court.
5/24/1990	K. S. Hegde, former President of Parliament, passed away.
7/8/1914	Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal, was born.

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