ON 15 APRIL IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on April 15, 2019
1469: Birth of Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism, who died on 7 May 1539
http://www.sikhs.org/guru1.htm
http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/gurus/nanak1.html
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/15-april-1469-guru-nanak-founder-of-sikhism-and-first-sikh-guru-was-born
1914: China refuses to accept the proposed McMahon Line between Tibet and India saying that Tibet is not sovereign et cannot sign treaties
1932: Birth of Suresh Bhat, Indian poet who died on March 14, 2003
http://www.poemhunter.com/suresh-bhat/biography/
1948: Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh is created
1960: Visit of Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai to Burma, India and Nepal, up to 30 April
1962: Birth of Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer, who died on November 17, 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surjit_Bindrakhia
http://www.bhangra.org/artists/bhangra-legends/surjit-bindrakhia/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PklBBUuQ6jY
1976: China and India restore their diplomatic relations suspended since the 1962 war
1984: Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
2007: More than 100 000 people demonstrate in Karachi against the leaders of one Islamabad mosque who launch Taliban style action against shops
2012: Talibans stage a wave of co-ordinated attacks on the Afghan capital Kabul and other locations. Foreign embassies, Nato’s HQ and the Afghan parliament are hit in the first major attack on Kabul in more than six months
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17719956