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Historical Event on 5/15/1958
Aruna Asaf Ali became the Mayor of Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/24/1926 | Aurobindo Ghose, former I.C.S. and revolutionary, attained full enlightenment I.e 'Purna Siddhi'. |
| 9/26/1996 | Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966. |
| 9/24/1922 | Jugal Mondal, social worker and politician, was born at Howrah. |
| 3/13/1971 | Fifth General Election of India ends. |
| 5/18/1998 | India may take the US to WTO. |
| 11/14/1998 | Prominent Indian Government and private entities are targeted in the Clinton Administration Entities List. American Companies are barred from trading with the listed companies. |
| 7/18/1993 | Girilal Jain, 71, The Times of India editor, died. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 8/21/1997 | Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people. |
| 10/3/1994 | Bhushan Tiwari, famous Hindi film actor of yesteryears, died. |
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