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Historical Event on 8/15/1997

IWM Vijayalakshmi wins Asian Zonal Women's Chess tournament in Tehran.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/28/1998India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past.
10/5/1989Meerasahib Fatima Beevi, former High Court judge from Kerala, was named the first woman judge of the Supreme Court.
1/24/1997Public holiday in connection with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose birth centenary.
8/5/1999The Global Peace March demands demilitarisation of the entire planet.
6/15/1991General Election (10th) of India ends. In this election Indian National Congress won.
4/14/1990Veena Vidwan S. Balachander passed away.
1/26/1957Shivlal Nandlal Yadav, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87), was born in Hyderabad.
3/2/1997Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, IMF, congratulates India on its pursuit of steady and higher economic growth.
5/13/1949Maharashtra Granthalay Sangh was established.
4/26/1995SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA).