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People born on October 15
1542 - Mughal emperor Akbar was born. His full name was Abul Fattah Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar.
1920 – Mario Gianluigi Puzo, the author of the famous novel The Godfather, was born.
1922 - Shankar- Famous musician (Shankar Jaikishan).
1925 - Hira Lal Devpura - Former Chief Minister of Rajasthan.
1931 - Missile Men, 11th President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was born in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu.
1936 - Madan Lal Khurana - Former Chief Minister of Delhi.
1952 - Raman Singh - Famous politician and second Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.
1957 - Mira Nair, Indian director.
Died on 15 October
1595 - Faizi - was a learned litterateur of medieval India and a famous Persian poet.
1961 - Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, a poet, novelist, essayist and story writer.
1975 - Devi Prasad Rai Choudhary - Famous painter and sculptor honored with Padma Bhushan.
1990 - Om Shivpuri was an actor of Hindi films.
1999 - Durga Bhabhi - was a major ally of the revolutionaries in the freedom struggle of India.
2012 - Norodam Shinouk - King of Cambodia.
2020 - The country's first Oscar winner Bhanu Athaiya passed away.
2020 - Veteran cricket journalist and commentator Kishore Bhimani passed away.
2020 - Akkitham Achuthan Namboodiri, noted Malayalam poet and Jnanpith awardee, passed away.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of 15 October
- Sri Vijayadashami (Dussehra) festival.
- Sri Boudhvatara Dashami.
- Shri Madhvacharya Jayanti (Ashwin Shukla Dashami / Dussehra).
- Sri Hira Lal Devpura Jayanti.
- Sri Madan Lal Khurana Jayanti.
- Shri Raman Singh Birthday.
- World Students Day (Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Jayanti).
- Pregnancy and Child Loss Remembrance Day.
- World Rural Women's Day.
- White Cane Safety Day (World White Cane Safety Day).
- World Handwashing Day.
Important Events of 15 October
1686 - Mughal ruler Aurangzeb signed a peace agreement with Bijapur.
1806 - Fighting begins between the armies of Pras and France. The day before this, Napoleon had defeated the army of Pros in the Six-Day War.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on the island of Saint Helena to live in exile after defeat.
1866 – A massive fire in Quebec, a French-dominated region in Canada, destroys 2500 houses.
1894 - The trial of Alfred Dreyfus begins in Paris. It was a French officer of Jewish origin whose trial became a famous event in France in the 19th century.
1917 – During the First World War, Mata Hari, a famous dancer from the Netherlands, is shot by French soldiers on charges of spying for Germany.
1923 – The fifth tropical storm of the year hits the north of the Leeward Islands.
1924 – US President Calvin Coolidge declares the Statue of Liberty a national monument.
1932 - The Tata company started the country's first airline called Tata Sons Limited. After the acquisition by the Government of India, the same company was called Air India.
1935 - The first flight of the Tata airline (which later became Air India).
1949 - Tripura state was incorporated into India.
1951 - The Parliament of Egypt ratifies the decision to annul the Suez Canal Agreement.
1958 – The African nation of Tunisia ends diplomatic relations with Egypt.
1964 - The retirement of the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khorschev, shocked the whole world.
1970 - Anwar Sadat is elected President of Egypt.
1978 - The Soviet Union conducts nuclear tests in the East Kazakhstan region.
1988 - Ujwala Patil becomes the first Asian woman to circumnavigate the globe by sea.
1990 – The President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990 – The Soviet Union becomes the first country to ratify the Presidential Sanctions Treaty.
1996 - Fiji becomes the first country to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
1997 - Arundhati Roy is selected for Britain's most prestigious Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things.
1998 - Fatima Bi of India was awarded the United Nations Prize for poverty alleviation.
1999 - China successfully tested a missile named 'DF-41 ICBM' with a range of 12,000 km.
1999 - General Joseph Rolston appointed Supreme Vice Commander of NATO.
2006 - United Nations sanctions on North Korea.
2007 - The 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to three American economists – Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Muskin and Roger Myerson.
2008 - The Reserve Bank announced a reduction of one percent in the CRR.
2008 - Arvind Adig was awarded the Booker Prize for the year 2008 for his book 'The Height Tiger'.
2012 - British author Hilary Mantle is awarded the Man Booker Prize for her novel "Bring Up the Buddies".
2013 – A 7.2 magnitude earthquake kills more than 215 people in the Philippines.
2019 - Kais Saied was elected the new President of Tunisia.
2013 - Air India becomes world's first airline to take aircraft from taxibot to runway.
2019 - Facebook launches Digital Beti campaign with the help of Government of India to technically train rural women.
2020 - India was named Vice-Chairman of the OECD Working Group on GLP.
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