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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 05/15/1729 |
Khanderao Dabhade, great warrior in Maratha kingdom, passed away. |
| 05/15/1817 |
Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali social reformer and father of Rabindranath Tagore, was born. |
| 05/15/1864 |
Mahavirprasad Dvivedi, famous Hindi litterateur, poet, writer and editor, was born at Daulatpur village in UP. |
| 05/15/1873 |
The proposal to dissolve East India Company was passed in England. |
| 05/15/1878 |
Sivnath Shastri and Ananda Mohan Bose, under the leadership of the younger group of Brahmo Sama, rebelled and started Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. |
| 05/15/1949 |
Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan. |
| 05/15/1958 |
Aruna Asaf Ali became the Mayor of Delhi. |
| 05/15/1958 |
Gift Tax Act was introduced. |
| 05/15/1989 |
NAL's 0.6 m transonic wind tunnel is commissioned. Total project cost is about Rs 20 million. |
| 05/15/1992 |
BSE closed. |
| 05/15/1992 |
CBI begins probe into the security scam. |
| 05/15/1992 |
Harshad Mehta suspended. |
| 05/15/1993 |
K.M. Cariappa, field marshal and Major General, passed away at the age of 93. |
| 05/15/1995 |
PM Rao reaches New York for a week-long visit. |
| 05/15/1996 |
The 11th Lok Sabha constituted as Election Commission submits a list of 534 successful candidates to President. |
| 05/15/1997 |
Yaseen Malik, All-Party Hurriyat Conference leader, was released from Tihar jail. |
| 05/15/1998 |
The Indian Army at Chandilora (Tangmey) captured 15 kg charas, 400 gm dust of charas and 12 kg leaves of charas. |
| 05/15/1998 |
Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro, receives the 1998 Polar music award. |
| 05/15/1999 |
Militants gun down Abdul Ahad Kar, a senior member of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly belonging to the ruling National Conference, in Kupwara district. |
| 05/15/1999 |
The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance. |
| 05/15/2000 |
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 |
| 07/17/1935 | Dr. Ram Babu Gupta, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1986-89, was born at Delhi. |
| 12/05/1990 | With the induction of 60 ministers, the Bihar Cabinet becomes the largest ever cabinet in India with a total of 71 ministers. |
| 01/31/2000 | All seven accused in the Jain hawala case discharged. |
| 07/14/1636 | Aurangzeb was appointed as Shahjahan by Viceroy of Deccan. |
| 10/02/1972 | Broadcasting of Mumabi Doordarshan started. |
| 04/21/1946 | Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, cricket (Indian off-spinner, Test umpire, ICC referee), was born in Madras. He received Arjun Award (1971). |
| 10/09/2000 | A special court convicts former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha and her associate Sasikala and sentences them to undergo three years imprisonment and two years rigorous imprisonment in two 'Tansi land deal' cases. |
| 02/25/1977 | Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun. |
| 02/02/1314 | Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same. |
| 01/07/1956 | Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy. |
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