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Historical Event on 1/15/2000

Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/17/1877Feroz Shah died at Makka, Saudi.
4/3/1996Union Ministers P. Chidambaram and M. Arunachalam resign over the issue of revival of alliance between Cong (I) and AIADMK.
1/4/1999Karnataka's Farah Khan made it three-in-a-row in the National ladies billiards championship in Delhi.
1/22/1963The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun.
1/26/2001Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Lata Mangeshkar.
6/20/1916Sreemati Nathibai Damodher Thackersey (SNDT) Indian Women' s University, first women's and the fifth Indian University, was established in Pune by D.K. Karve.
10/12/1997Leander-Mahesh claim sixth doubles title of the year when they bagged the Heinekin Open ATP Tour series doubles in Singapore
1/12/1948Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji.
10/28/1997Gold import placed under Open General Licence.
9/29/2000The Appellate Authority of the Industrial and Financial Reconstruction stays the order of the BIFR permitting winding up of Bharat Gold Mines Limited, KGF, Karnataka.