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Historical Event on 10/15/1994
SROSS-C2, Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P2), which carried remote sensing payload, was placed in orbit. It was the second developmental launch of PSLV.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/27/1968 | Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously. |
| 4/22/1840 | James Princes, British research scientist and archeaologist, passed away. |
| 11/17/1999 | India beats New Zealand by seven wickets to win the one-day cricket series in New Delhi. Saurav Ganguly adjudged the 'man of the match' and 'man of the series'. |
| 1/6/1976 | Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 1/12/1993 | Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh. |
| 9/29/1942 | The British police shot Matangini Hazra, a 72-year old woman of Tamluk town in Midnapur district, when she was leading the flag at Tamluk in August movement procession. |
| 7/7/1948 | Damodar Valley Corporation, first public corporation, was established. |
| 6/29/1909 | Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born. |
| 6/2/1997 | Saudi Boeing 747 Jumbo with 348 people on board misses the Meenambakkam international airport, Chennai and forcelands at Tambaram Air Force strip. |
| 10/12/1976 | Indian Airlines Caravelle crashed after take off from Bombay. |
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