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Historical Event on 8/15/1947

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1970Dr. Dharmendra of the Indian Council of Medical Research awarded the Damien-Duttan Award for outstanding work in leprosy.
9/29/1994Cable Television Regulation Ordinance issued.
5/15/1989NAL's 0.6 m transonic wind tunnel is commissioned. Total project cost is about Rs 20 million.
9/25/1857Lucknow relief by Havelock & Outram begins.
6/1/1996H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in.
9/20/1989IPKF suspends its operations against LTTE in Sri Lanka. LTTE, in turn, ceases all operations against the Indian armed forces.
12/4/1993Bahadur Prasad wins the second gold medal in 5000 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila.
11/6/1997Chief Executives of public sector banks and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, after a meeting in New Delhi, decide to grant greater administrative autonomy to select public sector banks.
3/26/1990Maniben Patel, daughter of Sardar Vallabhai Patel, passed away.
7/2/1941Muhammad Baqa Jilani, one Test for India, 0-55, died at the age of 29.