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Historical Event on 8/15/1997
K.Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open Chess tournament.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/28/1993 | President's rule in J&K extended for another six months. |
| 3/5/1997 | Pravin Thipsay wins the United Insurance GM chess tournament in Dhaka. |
| 6/18/1974 | Govinddas Seth, Hindi litterateur and politician, died. |
| 6/27/1967 | First Indian made AVRO aircraft passenger Plane HS748 handed over to Indian Airlines. |
| 1/18/1947 | Kundanlal Saigal, famous film star and unique singer, died at Jalandhar. |
| 2/23/1962 | The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979). |
| 3/26/1990 | Pratap Singh Rane,Goa CM, resigns. |
| 4/20/1888 | 246 reported killed by an hail storm in Moradabad, India. |
| 4/15/1947 | Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace. |
| 8/13/1936 | Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama, freedom fighter, Indian lady revolutionary and politician, passed away at Bombay. |
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