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Historical Event on 12/15/1675
Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in Delhi by Aurangzeb for his refusal to embrace him.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/29/1927 | Madhavsingh Solanki, one of the leaders in Gujarat, was born. |
| 6/13/2000 | Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir. |
| 11/8/1991 | K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab. |
| 11/29/1952 | First international organization for birth control founded in Bombay. |
| 8/10/1989 | Panchayatraj' and 'Nagarpalika' bills were passed in Parliament's Lok Sabha. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 9/1/1913 | Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, politician, social reformer, lawyer and athelete, was born. |
| 9/1/1913 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 4/8/1953 | Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away. |
| 8/19/1999 | India's role in ASEAN, ARF is lauded at a colloquium in Singapore. |
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