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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 5/15/1729 |
Khanderao Dabhade, great warrior in Maratha kingdom, passed away. |
| 5/15/1817 |
Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali social reformer and father of Rabindranath Tagore, was born. |
| 5/15/1864 |
Mahavirprasad Dvivedi, famous Hindi litterateur, poet, writer and editor, was born at Daulatpur village in UP. |
| 5/15/1873 |
The proposal to dissolve East India Company was passed in England. |
| 5/15/1878 |
Sivnath Shastri and Ananda Mohan Bose, under the leadership of the younger group of Brahmo Sama, rebelled and started Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. |
| 5/15/1949 |
Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan. |
| 5/15/1958 |
Aruna Asaf Ali became the Mayor of Delhi. |
| 5/15/1958 |
Gift Tax Act was introduced. |
| 5/15/1989 |
NAL's 0.6 m transonic wind tunnel is commissioned. Total project cost is about Rs 20 million. |
| 5/15/1992 |
BSE closed. |
| 5/15/1992 |
CBI begins probe into the security scam. |
| 5/15/1992 |
Harshad Mehta suspended. |
| 5/15/1993 |
K.M. Cariappa, field marshal and Major General, passed away at the age of 93. |
| 5/15/1995 |
PM Rao reaches New York for a week-long visit. |
| 5/15/1996 |
The 11th Lok Sabha constituted as Election Commission submits a list of 534 successful candidates to President. |
| 5/15/1997 |
Yaseen Malik, All-Party Hurriyat Conference leader, was released from Tihar jail. |
| 5/15/1998 |
The Indian Army at Chandilora (Tangmey) captured 15 kg charas, 400 gm dust of charas and 12 kg leaves of charas. |
| 5/15/1998 |
Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro, receives the 1998 Polar music award. |
| 5/15/1999 |
Militants gun down Abdul Ahad Kar, a senior member of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly belonging to the ruling National Conference, in Kupwara district. |
| 5/15/1999 |
The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance. |
| 5/15/2000 |
Ghulam Hassan Bhat, Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Power, dies in a powerful IED explosion near Mandipore in Anantnag. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/11/1998 | Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) died at 1850 hrs today. |
| 10/6/1983 | Punjab Government was dismissed to halt religious and political violence by Indira Gandhi, who imposed President's rule in the state. |
| 9/25/1985 | Akali Dal wins Punjab state elections. |
| 12/3/1790 | Lord Cornwallis took away the regulation power from Nawab Murshidabad and Sadar Nizamat was removed from Adalat in Calcutta. |
| 12/28/1981 | Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned. |
| 9/19/1933 | Sunit Francis Rodrigues, former Chief Army General, was born. |
| 1/16/1858 | Baithi, Laikha, Ratna, Maani, and the women who participated in Mairath Kranti at Gudgaon, all were hanged. |
| 5/1/1994 | Six leading Akali factions dissolved to form a new party, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Amritsar, which wanted a 'Sikh State'. |
| 9/25/1947 | Kashmir accedes to Indian Union. |
| 6/13/1992 | Security scam: assets of three SBI officials attached. |
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