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Historical Event on 8/15/1992

Karnataka seeks army help to nab sandal wood smuggler Veerappan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/19/1997Indian Prime Minister and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, spoke for first time on restored hotline, to reiterate their committment to comprehensive dialogue, including Kashmir.
5/12/1987Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat.
1/1/1983This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Communications Year"".
3/25/1898Swami Vivekanand accepted Sister Nivedita as his disciple.
7/22/1925Homi Jehangir Teleyarkhan, social worker, was born.
6/30/1934Chintamani Nagesh Ramachandra Rao, famous Scientist and Chemist, was born. His research work confines to ""Solid State Chemistry"". In 1982 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
12/13/1999Dr. V. Kurien gets the Paulos Mar Gregorius Award 1999.
3/16/1998Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.
1/1/1988On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking.
4/6/1664Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese.