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Historical Event on 5/15/1997
Yaseen Malik, All-Party Hurriyat Conference leader, was released from Tihar jail.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/20/1955 | Suez Canal nationalised by Gamal Abdul Nassar. |
| 6/11/1997 | Jaspal Rana and J. Abhijit in the men's section and Nisha Millet in the women's section adjudged best sports persons of the National Games. |
| 1/10/1993 | India asks Pakistan to reduce its diplomatic strength by 40. |
| 9/29/1993 | JD, JD(A) and SJP merge to fight BJP in the assembly elections. |
| 1/7/1685 | Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born. |
| 10/26/1999 | India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). |
| 6/2/1908 | Sri Aurobindo, freedom fighter, was arrested in Manik Tala Bomb explosion case. |
| 8/19/1916 | Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India, was born. |
| 10/3/1906 | Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay. |
| 7/6/1939 | Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore. |
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