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Historical Event on 9/15/1997

Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/11/1613Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.
11/19/1835Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. She was named Manikarnika and was called 'Manu'.
4/3/1950Jayprakash Shankarrao Mundada, cabinet Minister of BJP-Shiv Sena alliance, was born.
9/15/1861Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family.
4/30/1996Re-polling in 445 stations in six states.
9/19/1950U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York.
4/5/1991Kerala Assembly dissolved paving way for elections.
5/19/1980Dr. Ramashankar Shukla 'Rasal', famous writer, passed away.
5/14/1996H.D. Deve Gowda elected leader of the third front as its prime ministerial candidate.
10/19/1689Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals.