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Historical Event on 7/15/1969

Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh, Padma Vibhushan, DFC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. After retirement he was appointed as the Ambassador in Switzerland.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/2/1984Violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination takes heavy toll.
11/6/1904Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born.
6/23/1994Two Britishers held hostage by terrorists in Kashmir for 17 days were set free.
11/21/1962India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India.
10/15/1888Gopal Ganesh Agarkar started daily newspaper 'Sudharak'.
1/22/1963The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun.
1/25/1824Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali poet and dramatist, was born in Sagardari village of Jessore district.
5/3/1969Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980) became the acting President of India.
4/10/1995Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, first non-Congress Prime Minister of India (1977-79) and Chief Minister of Bombay, passed away at the age of 99. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna.
6/1/1972Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS).