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Historical Event on 11/15/1988

Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1968Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 16/12/1970.
11/16/1883Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and journalist, was born at Varanasi.
4/6/1985Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final.
11/27/1993Splendid bowling by Anil Kumble (6 for 12) helps India to beat West Indies by 102 runs in the Hero Cup finals in Calcutta.
2/8/1912Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, passed away.
2/6/1937Baldev Singh, Chahal campaigner, was born.
6/19/1990NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan.
1/2/1947Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"".
5/22/1970Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'.
2/15/1865Kishorilal Goswami, Hindi novelist, was born.