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Historical Event on 5/15/1998

Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro, receives the 1998 Polar music award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/20/1999Shobha Subrahmanyam, managing director of the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group of publications, was elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society for 1999-2000.
2/5/1991The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
3/3/1993Sharad Pawar nominated CM of Maharashtra.
3/25/1983Modern oceanographic research ship of the world 'Sagar Kanya' landed first time in the sea.
12/21/1929Indian National Congress convenes in Lahore.
10/31/1843Tarkanath Gangopadhyay, first realistic social novelist of Bengal, was born.
11/11/1994The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act.
5/13/1956Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore.
7/17/200055 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport.
5/2/1930Riots break out in Amritsar.