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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 |
| 11/25/1948 | National Cadet Corps was first established. |
| 1/12/1869 | Dr. Bhagavan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur, was born at Varanasi. |
| 12/30/1953 | The Untouchability (Offences) Bill published in the Gazette of India. |
| 12/25/1771 | Shah Alam II sat on the Throne of Dehli. Marathas captured Delhi and induced Shah Alam to return to Delhi after an absence of 18 years from the captial. |
| 4/22/1915 | Hem Barua, famous Assami and English litterateur, was born. |
| 6/18/2000 | K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine. |
| 11/20/1989 | Hirabai Barodekar, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", passed away. |
| 9/30/1997 | Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff. |
| 10/17/1970 | Anil Radhakrishna Kumble, cricketer (great Indian leg spinner since 1990), was born in Bangalore. |
| 1/29/1953 | Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar ""Kaka Saheb"" was appointed as the Chairman of the Backward Classes Commission. |
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