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Historical Event on 1/15/1998
Binda Prasad Kashyap, 73, CPI leader, passed away in Nagpur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/1916 | Mrs. Annie Besant in cooperation with Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the Home Rule League Movement with Dadabhai Naoroji as its President. |
| 6/23/1994 | Two Britishers held hostage by terrorists in Kashmir for 17 days were set free. |
| 11/27/1972 | Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan. |
| 1/27/1995 | K.V. Krishna Rao, J&K Governor, gets another term. |
| 1/1/1967 | Day's play in the Calcutta Test vs West Indies cancelled by riots. |
| 9/23/1908 | Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 2/21/1998 | Romesh Bhandari, U.P. Governor, dismisses the Kalyan Singh Government and inducts an 18-member ministry headed by Jagadambika Pal of the Loktantrik Congress Party. BJP moves the Allahabad High Court. BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, A. B. Vajpayee, goes on a ""fast-unto-death"". |
| 2/21/1998 | Maharana Pratap, great revolutionary, soldier and freedom fighter, was born. |
| 6/25/1943 | No. 8 Squadron started functioning absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel, and also issued with a vengeance to achieve operational status. |
| 11/7/1998 | Jiwan Singh Umrangal (84), Akali leader and former Punjabi Minister, dies in hospital in Beas. |
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