Historical events February 15.

1879: US Supreme Court allowed women lawyers to fight lawsuits.

1915 : Singapore Mutiny, a mutiny involving up to half of a regiment of 850 Indian Muslim sepoys against the British in Singapore during the First World War, linked with the 1915 Ghadar Conspiracy.

1939: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as the President of the Congress.

1942: World War II- British troops surrendered in Singapore. 80,000 Indian, British, and Australian troop’s ceasefire.

1965: Canada adopted a new flag.

1967: Fourth general election held in India.

1976: Central Agricultural Research Institute was established in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

 

Famous people born on this day on 15th February

1564: Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer.

1710: Louis XV, the King of France.

1824: Rajendralal (Raja Mitra), the first president of the Asiatic Society, an Orientalist researcher in Bengal.

1923: Sathyavani Muthu, an Indian politician and an influential leader from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

1934: Niklaus Wirth, a Swiss computer scientist. 

1935: Bashir Badr, an Indian poet of Urdu.

1947: Randhir Kapoor, an Indian film actor, producer, and director.

1949: Namdeo Dhasal, a Marathi poet, writer, and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India.

2017: The Indian space rocket PSLV-C37 successfully launches 104 satellites in a single flight.

Death anniversaries– February 15.

1869: Mirza Ghalib, a prominent Urdu, and Persian poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire.

1948: Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, an Indian poet. 

1953: Sureshbabu Mane, a prominent Hindustani classical music singer of Kirānā Gharānā in India. 

1988: Richard Feynman, an American theoretical physicist.