November 15- This Day in Indian History

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

 

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