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Historical Event on 11/15/2000

India cancels cricket series with Pakistan in January next on account of Islamabad's ''hostile propaganda''.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/15/1993Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme
5/14/1953Y. N. Sukthankar was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1957.
7/24/2000S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad.
1/26/199647th Republic Day celebrated;Chief Guest was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
8/14/1954'State Carrom Association' was established in Mumbai.
4/3/1991UP Assembly dissolved to pave way for Assembly polls .
2/1/1797Lord Cornwallis was sworn in as Governor General of India for a second time in England. However, he did not proceed to India till 1805.
9/24/1856Henry, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and Governor General of India, passed away.
9/24/1856Sher Shah defeated Humayun for the second time at Hardoi in U.P. in the battle of Kanauj.