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Historical Event on 9/15/1993

Election Commission announces polls in the former BJP-ruled states of UP, MP, HP, Rajasthan and in Delhi and Mizoram.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1981Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested.
11/21/1993R.F. Botha, Foreign Minister, moots a grouping of Indian Ocean countries.
3/20/1926For the first time in the history of the competition, Scotland beats England for rugby's Calcutta Cup in London.
10/24/1934Mahatma Gandhi quits Indian Indian National Congress in struggle over tactics.
1/7/1987Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket. At 28, he was the youngest cricketer to accomplish this feat.
10/17/19037th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
9/29/1725Robert Clive, one of the founders of British empire in India and diplomat, was born.
8/21/1997Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India.
7/12/1970Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
5/31/1998B. R. Rawat, an Indian diplomat, is assaulted by a Pakistani private security guard in Islamabad.