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Historical Event on 12/15/1932

Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born.

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10/31/1999Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President, is conferred with the Indira Gandhi Award.
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2/14/1901King Edward VII open's his first parliament.
2/19/1949Mass arrests of communists in India.
5/23/1947The U.K. Cabinet today took the historic step of agreeing to Lord Mountbatten's proposal for the partition of India into two states, one Muslim and the other Hindu. The Viceroy is to have a series of talks with Lord Listowel, the Secretary for India.