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Historical Event on 2/15/1997

Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/30/1803East India Comapny captured Dehli, Agra and Bharooch.
6/23/1810Duncan Dock of Bombay was completed.
5/2/1907Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab.
4/16/1848Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Telegu author and social reformer, was born in Andhra Pradesh.
7/21/1947Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.
11/27/1972Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan.
1/21/1882Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born.
5/2/1926Hindu women gain right to seek elected office.
3/21/1836National Library was established.
5/25/1965Independent India had further clashes with Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, one over the intractable Kashmir dispute and the other over Bangladesh. A border war was also fought with China in 1962 in the North-Eastern region, which resulted in the loss of Aksai Chin in Ladakh and smaller areas in the North-east. India continues to dispute sovereignty over these areas.