15 August in Hindu history
15 August 187215 August 1947
Sri Aurobindo born at Calcutta
Aurobindo Ghose is born at Calcutta. Revolutionary, then yogi of Pondicherry, his birthday falls on the day Bharat would become free seventy-five years later.
Bharat becomes independent
At midnight the Constituent Assembly takes power, and in the morning the tricolour is raised in Delhi. Partition comes with it: Punjab and Bengal are divided, well over a crore of people are uprooted, and lakhs are killed.
15 August 1969
ISRO founded
The Indian Space Research Organisation is formed under Vikram Sarabhai, taking over from the national committee for space research set up in 1962.