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Historical Event on 5/15/1864
Mahavirprasad Dvivedi, famous Hindi litterateur, poet, writer and editor, was born at Daulatpur village in UP.
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| 1/3/1921 | First Indian Parliament meets. |
| 4/11/1931 | Mahendranath Yeshwant Gupte, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1984-85, was born at Mumbai. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 10/4/1847 | Pratapsingh Bhosle, Maratha King, died. |
| 8/25/1997 | Konkan Railway line in Goa, except for a short stretch between Pernem and Maharashtra border, becomes operational. |
| 8/18/1800 | Fort William College was established at Calcutta. |
| 11/26/1949 | Constitution of India was adopted |
| 1/29/1997 | Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'. |
| 5/18/1772 | Janoji Bhosle, warrior in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
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