Events

15-January-1592	Shahjahan, great mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore.
15-January-1656	Chhatrapati Shivaji conquered Javali state.
15-January-1784	Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution.
15-January-1887	Shri Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary, freedom fighter and a great native poet, was born in village Angaluru, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh.
15-January-1888	Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar.
15-January-1898	Nanasaheb Ramji Tawde, educationist and scientist, was born at Taluq Malvan, Maharashtra.
15-January-1899	Musaffir, Giani Gurmukh Singh, writer and politician, was born at Udhwal (Pakistan).
15-January-1918	K.C.D. Brahaspati, great poet, playwright and orientalist, was born at Rampur, UP.
15-January-1919	Ahmed Mohammad Mamsa, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1963-73, was born at Mumbai.
15-January-1921	Babasaheb Anantrao Bhosle, eighth Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born.
15-January-1929	Dr. Martin Luther King, civil rights leader of the United States of America, freedom fighter and Nobel Prize awardee, was born at America.
15-January-1934	Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed.
15-January-1947	Pritish Nandi, famous journalist, was born. Abul Kalam Azad became Minister of Education in the Government of India.
15-January-1948	Gandhiji hails Indian Cabinet's decision to release Pakistan dues of Rs. 550 million. Fast continues for establishment of communal peace.
15-January-1949	General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day.
15-January-1956	Erach Jahangir Sorabji Taraporewala, famous Indian language expert, passed away.
15-January-1958	Tamil becomes the official language of Madras.
15-January-1965	Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras.
15-January-1966	The Indian Air Force achieved equal status with the Army and possessed in excess of 70,000 personnel and was nearing its 45-squadron goal. Its composition in the autumn of 1968 included 23 fighter category squadrons, three tactical bomber squadrons, a maritime patrol squadron (with ex-Air India L. 1049G Super Constellations), 11 transport squadrons, four AOP squadrons, a number of helicopter units and a few SAM squadrons.
15-January-1971	Dinanath Damodar Dalal, great artist, passed away.
15-January-1973	Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
15-January-1977	Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui, modern Urdu writer, passed away.
15-January-1988	Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Chidambaram Stadium in Madras thus creating a world Test record.
15-January-1988	Narendra Hirwani makes a world record by capturing 16 West Indies wickets on Test debut at Chidambaram Stadium in Madras.
15-January-1993	PM asks for judicial probe into Bombay riots, sanctions Rs. 1 crore aid for victims.
15-January-1996	Restoration of the original name of the city as ""Mumbai"" for Bombay Vide Naharashtra Act No, XXV of 1996. (CIV
15-January-1996	Victoria Terminus (VT) station in Mumbai renamed Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus by the Centre.
15-January-1997	Pakistan's pilotless surveillance aircraft intrudes into Indian air space for the first time.
15-January-1998	Binda Prasad Kashyap, 73, CPI leader, passed away in Nagpur.
15-January-1998	Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years.
15-January-1999	Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (79), writer, poet, litterateur and associate of Rajaji, died in Chennai.
15-January-2000	Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan.