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Historical Event on 6/15/1659

Aurangzeb was declared as the Emperor of India at Red Fort Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/28/1981Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.
1/6/1987An International Conference to commemorate the 75 anniversary of the African National Congress opens in New Delhi.
9/14/1803Lord Lake was captured Delhi.
10/24/1994The Supreme Court refused to answer Presidential reference on Ayodhya and acquisition of disputed land was upheld.
11/8/1831Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton was born.
9/11/1875Koyaji Jahangir Kuwanrji, famous economist, was born.
10/21/1954Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1.
8/1/1939Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed.
2/28/1951Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot.
10/17/1998Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.