15th NOV TODAY IN HISTORY DINVISHESH GHADAMODI
Today in Indian History
Events for November 15
Events for November 15
15-November-1621 | Jahangir captured Kakda Fort. |
15-November-1817 | Battle of Yerwada. |
15-November-1830 | Ram Mohun Roy sailed for England. He was the first Indian Brahmin (then 'Brahmo') to go to England. |
15-November-1875 | Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was born at Ulihatu, Ranchi district, Bihar. |
15-November-1911 | First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler. |
15-November-1913 | Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15) |
15-November-1920 | Assembly meeting of the League of Nations. |
15-November-1921 | 16 Gurkha troops killed by anti-British rebels. |
15-November-1932 | Surinder Kumar Mehra, Air Chief Marshal, was born in Delhi |
15-November-1937 | Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) ""Kamayanee"" and plays ""Chandra Gupt"" and ""Ska |
15-November-1949 | Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail for Gandhi's murder. |
15-November-1982 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave, great freedom fighter and social reformer, died (88 years) in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra. |
15-November-1982 | S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died. |
15-November-1988 | Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet. |
15-November-1989 | Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi. |
15-November-1991 | Import curbs on capital goods relaxed. |
15-November-1991 | Insurance official Dr. S.L. Khosa freed in Kashmir in exchange for a militant. |
15-November-1992 | 37 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur. |
15-November-1992 | At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. |
15-November-1992 | Praveen Amre scores century (103) on Test Cricket debut vs South Africa at Durban. |
15-November-1993 | IA Airbus with 272 on board forcelands on a paddy field near Tirupati; all passengers safe. |
15-November-1993 | Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme. |
15-November-1995 | Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations. |
15-November-1997 | INS Delhi' commissioned. |
15-November-1998 | Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai. |
15-November-1999 | Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. |
15-November-1999 | The no-confidence motion moved against Om Prakash Chautala by the opposition failed in Haryana. |
15-November-2000 | India cancels cricket series with Pakistan in January next on account of Islamabad's ''hostile propaganda''. |
15-November-2000 | Congress(I) gives a thumping mandate to Sonia Gandhi. |
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