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Historical Event on 8/15/1965
Television starts in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/20/1992 | Pandit Gauri Shankar, famous dance director in Hindi films, passed away. |
| 4/1/1989 | Shridhar Madhav Joshi (S. M. Joshi), great socialist leader, passed away. |
| 11/9/1999 | Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour. |
| 4/2/1987 | Indian Standards Institution becomes Bureau of Indian Standards. |
| 10/19/1974 | T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai, famous Tamil stage artist, died. |
| 2/26/1937 | Manmohan Desai, film producer and director, was born. |
| 12/17/2000 | The 13-day nationwide postal strike called off. |
| 3/3/1982 | Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died. |
| 7/31/1907 | Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous ancient researcher and mathematician, was born. |
| 3/18/1972 | First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi. |
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