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Historical Event on 8/15/1996

Deve Gowda speaks in Hindi on the occasion of the 50th Independence Day.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/15/1991The 25-day-old Narasimha Rao government wins a vote of confidence in Lok Sabha by securing 241 to 111; 112 abstained.
10/2/1982Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance minister of India, died.
9/27/1958Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais.
2/1/1968United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi.
6/24/1990Defence scientists successfully test fired country's first third generation anti-tank missile 'NAG'.
8/18/1923Jamshed Khudadaad Irani, cricket wicket-keeper for India during the 1947-48 Australia tour, was born in Karachi.
7/13/1950Nehru asks Stalin and Acheson to restore peace in Korea.
9/8/1951The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions) was re-designated as CDA(P), Allahabad.
9/8/1951Akbar himself left Agra.
10/13/1998India, Mauritius sign an agreement on civil aviation in New Delhi in the presence of its two Prime Ministers.