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Historical Event on 9/15/1999

Palvai Purushottam, the sitting Sirpur MLA and TDP candidate, shot dead.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/10/1931Capital of India shifted from Old Delhi to New Delhi, formal inauguration of New Delhi City took place.
12/20/1920Justice Ali Sayyed Murtuza Fazal  was born.
5/19/2000A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency.
4/27/1918Gandhiji attends Viceroy's War Conference at Delhi and addresses it in Hindustani; subsequently tours Kaira District to raise recruits for army.
1/31/1949Maharajas of Baroda and Kolhapur decide to merge their states with Bombay.
4/19/1960Meeting of Afro-Asian Conference at New Delhi.
5/10/1985P. N. Bhagawati appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
1/28/1865Lala Lajpat Rai 'Punjab Kesari', great valiant freedom fighter, social reformer, humanitarian and lawyer, was born in Dhudike village of Ferozepur district, Punjab.
11/11/1994The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.