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Historical Event on 4/15/1980

Six more private sector banks nationalized.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/20/1916Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai.
3/19/1848Lokhitwadi started his column 'Shatpatra' in the newspaper named 'Prabhakar'.
3/19/1848Mughals capture Ahmednagar.
3/3/1939Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention.
8/7/1906First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee.
5/11/1987President's rule imposed in Punjab.
11/7/1995India opens second consulate in UK in Glasgow (first being at Birmingham).
3/28/1956Tirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar, great Indian cricket pace-bowler (2 Tests 1982-83 little impact), was born in Madras.
6/3/1865George V, King of England (1910-36), was born.
2/11/1981Australia all out for 83 vs India at MCG. They were chasing 143 to win.