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Historical Event on 8/15/2000
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says in his Independence Day address, ""Borders cannot be redrawn either in the name of religion or on the strength of the sword"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/31/1912 | Allan Octavian, great social reformer, patriot, lawyer, journalist and politician, passed away at the age of 84. |
| 7/12/1993 | West Bengal Governor Dr. Nurul Hasan, 72, died. |
| 12/4/1796 | Bajirao became the second Peshwa. |
| 9/30/1996 | PVN Rao, who was to appear in court in the Pathak cheating case, gets a reprieve |
| 6/12/1972 | D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died. |
| 6/12/1972 | Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India. |
| 6/16/1998 | Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, meets her Indian couterpart A B Vajpayee in New Delhi. |
| 1/15/1919 | Ahmed Mohammad Mamsa, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1963-73, was born at Mumbai. |
| 5/7/1973 | Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died. |
| 8/18/1911 | Adityanath Jha, former Governor of Delhi, was born. |
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