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Historical Event on 1/15/1887
Shri Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary, freedom fighter and a great native poet, was born in village Angaluru, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh.
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| 11/30/1915 | Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telgu poet, died. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 11/16/1992 | Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria. |
| 8/2/1891 | Padmashree V. P. Karmarkar (Nanasaheb), famous sculptor, was born. |
| 6/25/1922 | Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
| 1/29/1993 | Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman. |
| 9/1/1999 | Ace athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; coaches Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh (athletics) and Gurbax Singh Sandhu (boxing) the Dronacharya awards during the Arjuna awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi. |
| 5/9/1907 | Two thousand dacoits riot in eastern Bengal. |
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