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Historical Event on 1/15/2000

Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/15/2000Sikh Guru Har Govindji, the sixth sikh guru, was born. He fashioned a military role for the Sikhs.
1/15/2000Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni passed away in his capital.
4/9/1695Waman Pandit, famous pandit poet, took samadhee at Bhogav.
4/2/1926The worst Hindu-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.
12/27/1901Gandhiji moves resolution on South Africa at Congress.
7/1/1975Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, declared a 20-point economic programme.
11/15/1830Ram Mohun Roy sailed for England. He was the first Indian Brahmin (then 'Brahmo') to go to England.
11/9/1993Tamil Nadu Assembly urges the Centre to amend Constitution to retain 69\% reservation for backward classes.
2/23/1996North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated.
11/2/1956Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons.