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Historical Event on 12/15/1997

Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/17/1990N. Janardhan Reddy sworn in as CM of Andhra Pradesh.
12/17/1990Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan was born.
6/1/1959National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL) set up under CSIR with temporary offices in New Delhi. Dr. P. Nilakantan is appointed NARL's first Director.
3/3/1859A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.
7/27/1928Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP).
11/1/1950First Indigenous Steam Engine from Chitranjan Rail Factory railed out.
2/18/1997Dhaniram Baruah, controversial heart surgeon who claimed to have transplanted a pig's heart into one of his patients, released on bail in Guwahati.
1/5/1990Mohammad Azharuddin was made captain of Indian cricket team.
1/16/1924In a tragic ship wreck, Kumaran Asan, famous Malayalam poet & eminent social worker, died.
12/22/1986India cricket team score 7-676 vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur.