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Historical Event on 8/15/1979

Tukoji Holkar, a leader of Peshwa kingdom, dies.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/14/1955Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President.
10/3/1997Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas.
5/31/1998B. R. Rawat, an Indian diplomat, is assaulted by a Pakistani private security guard in Islamabad.
9/7/1965U.S. suspends military aid to India and Pakistan.
9/5/1962Dr. Radhakrishnan's birthday declared as Teachers Day.
7/31/1996Joginder Singh became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/97).
2/1/1835East India company obtained Darjeeling from the King of Sikkim.
7/22/1944Man Mohan Modi Seth , great industrialist, was born at Modinagar, U.P.
10/3/1978Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta.
12/21/1788Sindhia arrested Gulam Qadir and killed him.