15 September - India on this day20 events
Palvai Purushottam, the sitting Sirpur MLA and TDP candidate, shot dead.
Price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas hiked.
M. Visveswarayya, maker of modern Karnataka, was born. He was a notable engineer too.
Sarat Chandra Chatterji, famous Bengali novelist and writer, was born at Debanandapur in Hoogly district.
Wazir Syed Ali, right-hand batsman and right-arm fast medium bowler, was born at Jalandhar.
Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family.
Margaret Lockwood, film actress of 'Lady Vanishes' fame, was born in Karachi, India.
Vande Mataram', a lengthy feature film produced by Vande Mataram Film Co, Bombay, was prohibited on September 15 by the Censor Board on the grounds that it was an underlying attack on the prestige of University Education in India. The film, however, was cleared on December 7 after deleting the objectionable scenes.
Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control.
Thiru Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, ''Anna'', founder of DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, also an editor, writer, orator and patriot, was born in a weaver community of Kanchipuram.
S. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected as the first lady President of the eighth session of the United Nations Organisation's (UNO) General Assembly.
President Ayub Khan appeals to the US to use its influence to end Indian-Pakistani hostilities.
Election Commission announces polls in the former BJP-ruled states of UP, MP, HP, Rajasthan and in Delhi and Mizoram.