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Historical Event on 1/15/1888

Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1906Pulavar Kulandai, great author and poet, was born at Bhavani.
3/1/1908Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India.
5/23/1993PM arrives in Tashkent.
7/15/1997Mahesh Chander Mehta, Environmental activist, wins Ramon Magsaysay Award.
6/15/1953Internal Air Route Corporation of India was established.
9/14/1910Dennis Laurence Amo, merchant and industrialist in Maharashtra, was born.
11/29/1953Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague.
5/7/1861Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta.
3/17/1987Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak.
1/22/1993A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off.