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Historical Event on 10/15/1977
The Congress party denies bid by Indira Gandhi to regain leadership.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/21/1961 | Queen of Britain, Elizabeth II, and her husband Duke of Edinburgh visited New Delhi. |
| 2/22/1958 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government. |
| 5/3/1971 | Dhanjay Ramchandra Gadgil, famous economist, passed away. |
| 3/17/1995 | Congress-I in Arunachal Pradesh wins two-third majority. |
| 3/22/1932 | Indian Muslims break with Great Britain. |
| 12/1/1955 | Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech condemning British colonialism. |
| 8/1/2000 | Lt. Gen. Padmanabhan to be new Army chief replacing Gen. V. P. Malik. |
| 10/2/1942 | Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire. |
| 9/23/1908 | Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 10/1/1997 | Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries. |
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