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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
6/30/1995CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan.
5/13/1916Vasudev Mahadev Salgaonkar, great Industrialist, was born.
1/26/1950India is proclaimed a Sovereign Democratic Republic ceasing to be a British dominion and adopted Indian Constitution which came into force.
5/21/1999A powerful bomb explodes and another is defused on the road leading to the Imphal airport minutes before the Prime Minister landed to commence his two-day visit to the State.
11/7/1990Lawrence Durrell, great Indian English and author (Mount Olive), passed away at the age of 78.
3/4/1951Eleven countries and 489 male and female athletes participated in the first Asian Games started at National Stadium in New Delhi.
1/31/1983The first floating Dry Dock was launched at Howrah.
12/31/1923Vishnu Dayal Jhunjhunwala, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur.
9/9/1944Mahatma Gandhi conducted several talks between 9th September to 27the September with Mohammed Ali Jinnah regarding Pakistan.
6/11/1921Snehlata, social reformer and politician, was born at Mathura, U.P.