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Historical Event on 5/15/1995
PM Rao reaches New York for a week-long visit.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/17/1993 | Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns; Dy. CM Wilfred D'Souza elected to succeed. |
| 3/5/1905 | Shushila Didi, great freedom fighter, was born at Datton Chuhad village, Punjab. She is remembered for her association in the revolutionary activities of Bhagat Singh. |
| 4/15/1947 | Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 8/22/1994 | Two dozen Mahar soldiers were ambushed when the Indian contingent was trying to stem the war in Somalia. Seven, including a JCO, lost their lives. |
| 3/20/1998 | Rajesh Kumar Singh, CPI(ML) leader, is shot at Pandeypur village in Patna. |
| 4/3/1999 | India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana. |
| 3/3/1871 | Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent. |
| 5/21/1994 | The Union Government imposes blanket ban on capitation fee for admission to private professional colleges. |
| 8/1/2000 | 27 'yatris' (travelers) die after militants attack a ''langar'' in a Pahalgam health resort en route to the Amarnath cave shrine. |
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