Today In Indian History 15 October for Competitive and Entrance Exam

  

 Today In Indian History 15 October for Competitive and Entrance Exam

Historical Events on October 15.

●  Global Handwashing Day & World Students’ Day

● 1917, 15th October: In World War I, Dutch dancer Harry was shot dead near Paris for spying for Germany.

● 1932, 15th October: The Tata Company airplane made its first flight. After the acquisition by the Government of India, this company is called Air India.

● 1964, 15th October: The retirement of Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev shocked the whole world.

● 1968, 15th October: Hargovind Khurana was awarded the Nobel Prize.

● 1973, 15th October: Henry Kissinger and Lee Duck were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

● 1984, 15th October: Archbishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

● 1993, 15th October: Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress, and FW de Klerk, President of South Africa.

● 1997, 15th October: Arundhati Roy was selected for Britain’s most prestigious Booker Prize for her novel ‘The God of Small Things‘.

● 1999, 15th October: Geet Sethi from India won the World Fred Davis Award.


Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 15.

●  1542: Akbar the Great, third Mughal emperor.

● 1608: Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist and inventor of the barometer.

● 1881: P. G. Wodehouse, English writer.

● 1908: J. K. Galbraith, Canadian-American economist.

● 1920: Mario Puzo, American author.

● 1926: Narayan Gangaram Surve, Indian poet.

● 1931: APJ Abdul Kalam, Scientist, and 11th President of India.

● 1934: N. Ramani, Indian musician, Carnatic style flutist.

● 1949: Pranoy Roy, an Indian journalist, and founder of NDTV.

● 1955: Kulbur Bhaur, Indian field hockey player.

● 1957: Mira Nair, an American filmmaker, and director of Indian descent.

● 1969: Sanjeev Abhyankar, Indian classical singer. 


Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 15.

●  1564: Andreas Vesalius, a 16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, Remembers as the father of Modern autonomy.

● 1789: Ramchandra Vishwanath Ramshastri Prabhune, Peshwa judge (India).

● 1918: Sai Baba, an Indian Guru and Saint of Shirdi, Maharashtra, India.

● 1930: Herbert Dow, Canadian born American chemist, founder of the Dow Chemical Company.

● 1946: Hermann Goering, the military leader of the German Nazi.

● 1961: Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Indian-Hindi writer.

● 1972: Nirmal Kumar Bose, a leading Indian anthropologist.

● 2012: Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia’s first Prime Minister.

● 2018: Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks.

● 2020: Bhanu Athaiya, an Indian costume designer.