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Historical Event on 9/15/1861
Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/10/1886 | Rameshwari Nehru, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Lahore. |
| 3/15/1969 | Indian Navy's first Helicopter Squadron was commissioned in Goa. |
| 12/19/1917 | Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born. |
| 1/18/1982 | Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi. |
| 5/18/1974 | First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb. |
| 3/9/1961 | Vishnu Sahay was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 15-04-1962. |
| 3/1/1985 | Rajendra Sethia, the biggest personal bankrupt ever, arrested in New Delhi. |
| 2/28/1951 | Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot. |
| 11/1/1992 | The Superfast Rajdhani Express train linking Bangalore and Nizamuddin (2,452 km) flagged off. |
| 10/25/1999 | Fixed term for Lok Sabha, Assemblies is under study, said President K R Narayanan in his address to a joint session of Parliament. |
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