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Historical Event on 1/15/1965

Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1991Stone laid for the Sanskrit University at Kaladi, the birthplace of Adi Sankara.
6/12/1970Gopinath Kaviraj, Padmavibhushan awardee and critic, passed away.
9/25/195414 Members of Parliament (MP) form a new party called the Union of Socialist Progress. Acharya Kripalani is the leader.
6/7/1955Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, visited U.S.S.R.
1/16/2000P. Moses, Indian High Commission Staff member, badly beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operators in Islamabad.
12/27/1996Mahashweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, win the Gyanpith Award.
10/25/2000The BJP Legislature Party in UP elects Rajnath Singh its leader.
7/4/1997Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls.
3/3/1847Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland.
1/26/1950India is proclaimed a Sovereign Democratic Republic ceasing to be a British dominion and adopted Indian Constitution which came into force.