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Historical Event on 12/15/1976

Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/27/1976Yashpal, modern hindi litterateur, passed away.
4/18/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, constitutes a Group of Ministers to review the national security system in its entirety in the light of the recommendations of the Kargil review committee.
12/12/1908Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire.
10/31/1984Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.'
11/20/1999P.G.S. Mony, Indian scientist, is honoured by the French Government.
9/12/1922Chandradhar Sharma Guleri passed away.
3/18/1922Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause.
5/4/1993Santosh Yadav became the first Indian woman to conquer the Everest twice.
6/3/1992M. N. Goiporia, SBI Chairman, asked to go on leave following security scam.
6/9/1948Laloo Prasad Yadav, former Chief Minister of Bihar, was born.