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Historical Event on 2/15/1865
Kishorilal Goswami, Hindi novelist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/1/1928 | Arun Kumar Seal, educationist, was born at Vishnupur. |
| 9/18/1992 | Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court. |
| 12/6/1929 | British Viceroy meets with Indian leaders to discuss dominion status for India. |
| 9/9/1920 | Anglo Oriental College of Aligargh became Aligarh Muslim University. It was the first university to use the regional language. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 11/16/1913 | Agnihotri Ambadas Shankar, journalist and litterateur, was born. |
| 6/14/1929 | Jatindra Nath Das was arrested in Calcutta. |
| 4/15/1975 | Janata Party's `People's March' to Parliament. |
| 4/15/1975 | Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398. |
| 1/19/1905 | Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali writer and thinker, passed away. |
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