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Historical Event on 5/15/1998
The Indian Army at Chandilora (Tangmey) captured 15 kg charas, 400 gm dust of charas and 12 kg leaves of charas.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1989 | A 13-member Sikkim Sangram Parishad Ministry headed by Nar Bahadur Bhandari assumes office in Sikkim. |
| 11/22/1718 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, died on the banks of the Sipra at Ujjain. |
| 5/13/1998 | India conducts two more nuclear tests at Pokhran. The US slaps sanctions. The Prime Minister says India will face down sanctions. |
| 6/10/1900 | Jayantnath Chaudhary, former General of Indian Army General, was born. |
| 11/1/2000 | Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Minister for Sports, releases the CBI report on match-fixing in New Delhi. |
| 3/6/1997 | Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) inaugurated in Mauritius. |
| 5/2/1977 | C.V. Narasimhan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 25/11/77). |
| 1/30/1948 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence, was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi was shot at point-blank range as he was walking through a garden to a pergola, where he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting. |
| 7/10/1949 | Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980). |
| 4/3/1992 | Nagaland brought under President's rule. |
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