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Historical Event on 8/15/1993
Five more Doordarshan channels launched.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/1/1901 | Vaidya Jogeshchandra Banerjee was born. |
| 3/5/1990 | Government announces an interim relief of Rs. 360 crore to 5 lakh victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. |
| 5/19/1993 | S. W. Sohoni, 4 Tests for India, 83 runs @ 16.6, 2 wkts @ 101, passed away. |
| 9/30/1900 | Mohommad Ali Chhagla, former central minister, was born. |
| 1/10/1897 | Wildemar Modecai Haffkine, famous scientist, innoculated himself with vaccine against Plague publicly to demonstrate the harmlessness of the product in Bombay. The method of preparation of this vaccine has remained the same till now for more then hundred years. |
| 1/30/1996 | Mob ransacks Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Bangalore. |
| 4/1/1882 | Savings Bank Postal system was introduced. |
| 1/3/1987 | Arvind Deshpande, famous actor, died. |
| 12/28/1921 | Prince of Wales inagurated Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta. |
| 10/29/1952 | Amalgamation of the Steel Corporation of Bengal with Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd. to be effective from 1st January 1953 under the latter's name. |
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