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Historical Event on 12/15/1859

S. Kasturiranga Ayengar, owner of Hindu newspaper, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
12/9/1977Ravishankar Mahashankar Rawal, famous painter, passed away.
1/16/1999Ritwick Bhattacharya (Delhi) and Mekhala Subedar (Maharashtra) won the men's and women's titles in the National squash championship in Calcutta.
12/1/1955Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech condemning British colonialism.
2/2/1967US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India.
8/25/1965Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89), was born in Delhi.
1/29/1996S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president.
2/11/1977B.D.Jathi became the second acting President of India.
1/7/1685Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born.
12/3/1955In exercise of the powers conferred by the provision in Article 343 (2) of the constitution, orders were issued for the use of Hindi language in addition to the English language for specific purposes of the union.