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Historical Event on 8/15/1992
Karnataka seeks army help to nab sandal wood smuggler Veerappan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/14/1968 | Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000. |
| 11/18/1964 | Dharam Vira was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27-06-1966 |
| 1/27/1948 | Gandhiji visits Mehrauli Muslim Fair. |
| 2/25/1760 | Lord Clive left India. His successors as Governors of India were J. Holwell and H. Vansittart from July 1760 to 1765. He was re-posted to India on May 3, 1765. |
| 5/13/1916 | Vasudev Mahadev Salgaonkar, great Industrialist, was born. |
| 9/7/1968 | Benipuri Sharma, famous Hindi novelist, died. |
| 7/27/1959 | Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut. |
| 8/20/1993 | Mother Teresa hospitalized for malaria. |
| 4/6/1966 | Mihir Sen, first Indian swimmer to achieve many remarkable feats, swam across the 'Palk Strait' measuring 22 kms between India & Sri Lanka (Cylone). |
| 12/4/1888 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born. |
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