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Historical Event on 11/15/1993

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/2/1998Nishant, the pilotless training aircraft developed by DRDO, is successfully flown from Chandipore.
9/20/1911Sri Ram Sharma Acharya, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Auvalkhera, Agra.
9/6/1947Indian government creates a new ministry of relief and rehabilitation of refugees.
11/15/1875Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was born at Ulihatu, Ranchi district, Bihar.
4/9/1954India reports only 43\% of population speaks 15 recognized languages, noting 720 dialects, 23 tribal tongues.
3/10/1904Raghunath Gopal Kokaje, great Hindi writer, was born at Bhoka, district Ratnagiri.
9/18/2000President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
1/28/1933India in Waldorf Hotel in London read out a four and a half page note in Cambridge.
1/22/1899Dilipkumar Roy, classical musician, was born.
5/30/1999India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.