Today Indian History November

15-November-1621           Jahangir captured Kakda Fort.

15-November-1817           Battle of Yerwada.

15-November-1830           Ram Mohun Roy sailed for England. He was the first Indian Brahmin to go to England.

15-November-1875           Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was born at Ulihatu, Ranchi district, Bihar.

15-November-1911           First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association  was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.

15-November-1913           Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" .

15-November-1920           Assembly meeting of the League of Nations.

15-November-1921           16 Gurkha troops killed by anti-British rebels.

15-November-1937           Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) ""Kamayanee"" and plays ""Chandra Gupt"".

15-November-1949           Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail for Gandhi's murder.

                                                  Nathuram Vinayak Godse

                                                 Narayan Dattatreya Apte 

15-November-1982           Acharya Vinoba Bhave, great freedom fighter and social reformer, died (88 years) in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra.

15-November-1982           S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died.

15-November-1988           Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet.

15-November-1989           Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi.

15-November-1991           Import curbs on capital goods relaxed.

15-November-1991           Insurance official Dr. S.L. Khosa freed in Kashmir in exchange for a militant.

15-November-1992           37 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur.

15-November-1992           At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

15-November-1992           Praveen Amre scores century (103) on Test Cricket debut vs South Africa at Durban.

15-November-1993           IA Airbus with 272 on board forcelands on a paddy field near Tirupati; all passengers safe.

15-November-1993           Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme.

15-November-1995           Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations.

15-November-1997           INS Delhi' commissioned.

15-November-1998           Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai.

15-November-1999           Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.

15-November-1999           The no-confidence motion moved against Om Prakash Chautala by the opposition failed in Haryana.

15-November-2000           India cancels cricket series with Pakistan in January next on account of Islamabad's ''hostile propaganda''.

15-November-2000           Congress(I) gives a thumping mandate to Sonia Gandhi.