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Historical Event on 1/15/1998
Binda Prasad Kashyap, 73, CPI leader, passed away in Nagpur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/29/1912 | Judge A.N. Ray, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 3/30/1945 | Dr. J. J. Rawal, joint director of Nehru Planetarium of Mumbai, was born. |
| 7/15/1991 | Jagannathrao Joshi, veteran leader of Janata Party `Karnataka Kesri', died. |
| 7/1/1991 | Rupee devalued by 8.5\%. |
| 6/29/1857 | Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British). |
| 8/27/1958 | Metric system of weights and measures introduced. |
| 1/7/1928 | Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India), was born at Amritsar. |
| 4/16/1959 | Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning. |
| 4/12/1917 | Mulvantrai Himatlal Mankad better known as ""Vinoo Mankad"", cricketer (India's greatest all-rounder to his time), was born at Jamnagar. |
| 1/18/1998 | Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
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