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Historical Event on 8/15/1997
Freedom fighter's pension to be doubled from the existing Rs. 1,500.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/2/1922 | Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist, was born. |
| 10/30/1996 | Former PM Narasimha Rao appears before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at the Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, New Delhi, as an accused in the St. Kitts forgery case. |
| 4/1/1933 | Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron. |
| 7/15/1917 | Tukaram Tanaji Sawant, educationist and famous Hindi writer, was born at Pokharam, (Maharashtra). |
| 11/9/1897 | Kotamaraju Rama Rao, founder-editor of Lucknow's ""National Herald"", was born at Chirala. He was referred by Gandhiji as 'Fighting Edit |
| 6/15/1993 | PM Narasimha Rao visits Oman; India and Oman decide to give each other MFN status. |
| 4/11/1992 | Marathi cinema's Bhaichandra Govind Pendharkar gets Phalke Award. |
| 10/29/1991 | Janta Dal leaders inculding V.P. Singh arrested on way to Ayodhya. |
| 12/13/1989 | Kashmiri militants release the daughter of Indian Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed as five of their comrades freed from prison. |
| 8/10/1995 | Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
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