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Historical Event on 10/15/1987
Times Eye Research Foundation was established in Amritsar, India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/23/1923 | Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52), was born in Calcutta. |
| 2/3/1992 | Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first). |
| 2/13/1601 | John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London. |
| 6/24/1901 | John Thottam (Sir Marry Benigna C.D.) Marry, great poetess and teacher, was born in Elangi village at Kerala. |
| 10/9/1877 | Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, great freedom fighter, social reformer, educationist, poet, author, lawyer of modern Orrisa, was born in Puri District, Orissa. |
| 7/8/1972 | Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, cricketer (centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996), was born in Calcutta. |
| 12/4/1910 | Amar Singh Ladha Nakum, cricketer (dashing Indian all-rounder of thirties), was born at Rajkot. |
| 8/17/1932 | V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born. |
| 7/28/1921 | Congress decided to boycott the visit of Prince of Wales in India. |
| 4/21/1992 | UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali visits New Delhi. |
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