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Historical Event on 6/15/1947

All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/10/1996Union Cabinet recommends to President the dissolution of the 10th Lok Sabha.
5/9/1992Killer brew claims 175 lives in Orissa, Excise Minister Prasanna Kumar Acharya resigns.
3/10/1995Ashok Padbidri, famous journalist and editor, died.
7/2/1999In Jammu and Kashmir, nine people are killed by unidentified militants.
8/15/1854The first train of the East Indian Railways steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hoogly, which was at a distance of 24 miles. It was the first passenger train catering to public traffic. Officially, it was inaugurated in 1855.
11/21/1914Ujwala Mazumdar, freedom fighter and member of Bengal Valunteers, was born at Dhaka.
11/20/1946Gandhiji starts tour without party.
10/6/1927The first independent film processing laboratory, Atmanand Laboratory, was set up by Narayanrao alias Dhanjibhai K. Desai at Bombay.
3/29/1869Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, was born.
10/16/1983Harish Chandra, great Indian scientist, died. His work in a narrow branch of modern mathematics led to its developement to such an extent that it drew the attention of mathematicians all over the world.