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Historical Event on 10/15/1888

Gopal Ganesh Agarkar started daily newspaper 'Sudharak'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/28/1986Union Government sanctions maternity leave for unmarried women employees too.
12/11/19676.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed.
8/3/1993Bill to regulate cable TV introduced in Rajya Sabha.
3/26/1980Bombay gets its first rock concert in 10 years (The Police).
9/20/1989IPKF suspends its operations against LTTE in Sri Lanka. LTTE, in turn, ceases all operations against the Indian armed forces.
4/10/1919Miss Mercia Sherwood, an English teacher, was assaulted by a mob in Amritsar. Brig. General. R.E.H. Dyer had given instructions to beat her.
10/5/1997Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country.
1/18/1997Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme Phase II begins.
7/1/1949M. Venkaiah Rangaiah Naidu was born in Chavatapalem, Distt. Nellore (Andhra Pradesh).
6/10/1832Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India), was born.