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Historical Event on 8/15/2000

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says in his Independence Day address, ""Borders cannot be redrawn either in the name of religion or on the strength of the sword"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/15/1675Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in Delhi by Aurangzeb for his refusal to embrace him.
11/11/1999Mr. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, leaves for Durban summit of the Commonhealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM).
1/29/1976Parliamenentary Committee on official language constituted. The Committee has since then submitted six parts of its report and Presidential orders have been issued on first five parts of it. The sixth part is in print.
4/8/1973India takes control over Sikkim after anti-government riots.
11/21/199227 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam.
4/30/1958Shiekh Abdulla taken into custody.
8/27/1995Andhra Pradesh Governor asks N T Rama Rao to prove his majority on 31st following a split in the Telugu Desam party.
1/1/1986This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Peace Year"".
1/29/1780Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
1/18/1959Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good.