Find out what happened in India on 15 November.
15-November-1621 |
Jahangir captured Kakda Fort. |
15-November-1817 |
Battle of Yerwada. |
15-November-1830 |
Ram Mohun Roy sailed for England. He was the first Indian Brahmin (then 'Brahmo') to go to England. |
15-November-1875 |
Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was born at Ulihatu, Ranchi district, Bihar. |
15-November-1911 |
First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler. |
15-November-1913 |
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems "Gitanjali" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Noble Prize. |
15-November-1920 |
Assembly meeting of the League of Nations. |
15-November-1921 |
16 Gurkha troops killed by anti-British rebels. |
15-November-1932 |
Surinder Kumar Mehra, Air Chief Marshal, was born in Delhi. |
15-November-1937 |
Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) "Kamayanee" and plays "Chandra Gupt" and "Skand Gupt". |
15-November-1949 |
Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail for Gandhi's murder. |
15-November-1982 |
Acharya Vinoba Bhave, great freedom fighter and social reformer, died (88 years) in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra. |
15-November-1982 |
S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died. |
15-November-1988 |
Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet. |
15-November-1989 |
Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi. |
15-November-1991 |
Import curbs on capital goods relaxed. |
15-November-1991 |
Insurance official Dr. S.L. Khosa freed in Kashmir in exchange for a militant. |
15-November-1992 |
37 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur. |
15-November-1992 |
At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. |
15-November-1992 |
Praveen Amre scores century (103) on Test Cricket debut vs South Africa at Durban. |
15-November-1993 |
IA Airbus with 272 on board forcelands on a paddy field near Tirupati; all passengers safe. |
15-November-1993 |
Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme. |
15-November-1995 |
Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations. |
15-November-1997 |
INS Delhi' commissioned. |
15-November-1998 |
Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai. |
15-November-1999 |
Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. |
15-November-1999 |
The no-confidence motion moved against Om Prakash Chautala by the opposition failed in Haryana. |
15-November-2000 |
India cancels cricket series with Pakistan in January next on account of Islamabad's ''hostile propaganda''. |
15-November-2000 |
Congress(I) gives a thumping mandate to Sonia Gandhi |