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Historical Event on 8/15/1997
IWM Vijayalakshmi wins Asian Zonal Women's Chess tournament in Tehran.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/19/1997 | Bengal wins Santosh Trophy National Football championship in Jabalpur. |
| 5/22/1991 | Elections scheduled to be held on 23, 26 deferred to 12, 15 of June. |
| 11/5/1907 | Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions. |
| 10/15/1888 | Gopal Ganesh Agarkar started daily newspaper 'Sudharak'. |
| 7/5/1996 | Janata Dal expels dissident Maneka Gandhi from primary membership of the party. |
| 2/11/1847 | Thomas Alva Edison, great scientist and inventor of electric light lamp, was born at Milan, Ohio. |
| 8/26/1927 | Second Radio Centre was started in Calcutta. |
| 11/6/1905 | Ram Bachan 'Aravind' Dwivedi, great Hindi, Bhojpuri poet and writer, was born at Dubouli, Bihar. |
| 2/22/1946 | Curfew imposed till 9 p.m. by the British in Bombay as rioting and looting continued for the second day. |
| 9/1/1999 | Dr. S. Srinivasan (58), Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Thiruvananthapuram, died. |
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