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Historical Event on 8/15/1998

Golden jubilee celebrations of the Indian Independence ends.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/2/1982Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras.
12/12/1971Sadik Gulam Muhammad, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, died.
7/21/1988Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3.
4/21/199018 more ministers added in the National Front Ministry.
11/29/1916Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan.
4/7/1929England's Imperial Airways had extended its flight to London-Karachi instead of London-Kahira. It was the first commercial air service in undivided India.
10/22/1796Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping from the terrace.
1/31/1985Under the 52nd Constitutional Amendment, Anti-Defector Bill was passed unanimously in Lok Sabha. This avoided the Representatives of People to switch over political parties.
8/9/1911Khorshedji Rustomji Meher-Homji, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper 1936), was born in Bombay.
10/27/1999The Archbishop of Delhi rules out Pope John Paul II's dialogue with the VHP during his visit to India in November.