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Historical Event on 7/15/1955

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was announced to be given to Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) by the President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1859A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.
2/3/1998The BJP releases its election manifesto promising to make India a nuclear state; build a Ram temple at Ayodha and work for a uniform civil code.
3/31/1997The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points.
5/21/1855Rani Rasmoni was consecrated at Bhabatarini Kali Temple of Dakhineswar.
12/20/1850Atma Dev, social reformer and religious leader, was born.
7/31/1916Mohanlal Sukhadia, chief minister of Rajasthan and freedom fighter, was born at Jhalawar.
7/2/1928Nandkishor Bal, great Odia poet, passed away.
11/14/1959Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone.
12/25/1879Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born.
7/27/19987 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.