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Historical Event on 1/15/2000

Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/7/1985Adoor Gopalakrishnan adjudged Best Director (Mukhamukham) in national film awards.
6/12/1891Gandhiji sailed for India and reached in July.
9/10/199587 of the 180 members of the newly constituted JAAC assume office.
10/30/1990Several people died and many injured as security forces opened fire at a crowd marching towards Ram Janmabhumi/Babari Masjid to perform 'karseva'.
4/27/1994Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.
7/19/1969Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.
5/1/1923Under the leadership of Singaravelu Chettiar, the first May day was celebrated in India.
5/1/1993Narayan Ganesh Goray, socialist stalwart, 86, passed away in Pune.
11/17/1994Dr. Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet, wins Saraswati Samman.
2/5/1991The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.