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Historical Event on 4/15/1996
Shyam Benegal's film ""The Making of a Mahatma"" released in South Africa.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/4/1957 | Rai Chaudhary Hemchandra, great historian, passed away. |
| 5/11/1985 | Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence. |
| 9/13/1901 | Jamshedji Bomanji H. Wadia, director and producer, was born. His first film was 'Toofan Mail' (1932). |
| 2/23/1998 | BJP leader Ranjit Yadav was shot dead in Sahibganj district. |
| 3/17/1943 | Indian troops retreat from Rathedaung to Buthidaung in the face of a renewed Japanese offensive on the Arakan front in Burma. |
| 6/17/1839 | Lord William Bentik, governor general of India, was born. |
| 12/12/1964 | HJT-16, the first Indian jet trainer, made its inaugural flight. |
| 1/30/1908 | Gandhiji was summoned to see General Smuts at Pretoria and released on reaching a compromise. |
| 4/12/1912 | Kirpal Singh Narang, social reformer and educationist, was born at Amritsar (Punjab). |
| 10/22/1796 | Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping from the terrace. |
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