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Historical Event on 11/15/1913

Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15)

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1909Madanlal Dhingra, revolutionary, assassinated Sir William Curzon Wyllie, a prominent Anglo-Indian, at the Imperial Institute in London.
2/8/1785Warren Hastings, British Viceroy, left  India.
3/31/1986Bombay Telephone Nigam renamed as Mahanagar Telephone Nigam.
11/3/1961Gold Bond scheme was started to boost Indian economy after Indo-China war.
8/21/1988500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale.
12/12/1964HJT-16, the first Indian jet trainer, made its inaugural flight.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
4/15/1997Interest rate on domestic term deposits brought down from 10 to nine per cent by RBI.
3/3/1997Senior Officials Meeting of Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) countries begins in Mauritius.
1/1/1999This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Elderly"".