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Historical Event on 10/15/1918
Shirdi ke Saibaba' better known as 'Saibaba' passed away at Shirdi near Nashik, Maharashtra. He was around 70. Born in a Brahmin family at Patri village in Hyderabad, he was saint to all caste and creed people.
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| 2/18/1911 | Under the auspices of the British Army, French pilot Henry Pequet makes the first official airmail flight from Allahabad to Naini Junction. |
| 1/1/1980 | This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"". |
| 10/2/1982 | Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance minister of India, died. |
| 12/19/1860 | Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of India (1848-1856), died. |
| 6/17/1965 | Motilal, famous actor, died. |
| 1/17/1905 | Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988. |
| 1/17/1905 | Sheikh Mirza, chieftain of a small state of Ferghana, was born in Turkmenistan. |
| 7/28/1994 | Uproar in Parliament over the Government's rejection of JPC report. |
| 9/5/1962 | Dr. Radhakrishnan's birthday declared as Teachers Day. |
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