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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
7/22/1956Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.
5/18/1998India talks with the US on the nuclear tests.
1/21/1961Queen of Britain, Elizabeth II, and her husband Duke of Edinburgh visited New Delhi.
5/1/1996Ban imposed (through a Delhi high court judgment) on the film 'Bandit Queen', based on the life of Phoolan Devi, lifted by Supreme Court.
7/9/1951India's first Five Year Plan prepared and published. There was the first amendment to the Constitution and the first general elections were held.
8/25/1996194 pilgrims die of cold at the cave temples of Amarnath .
11/20/1981Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis.
4/19/1995Rajendra Kumari Bajpai appointed the Lt. Governor of Pondichery.
9/6/1999Vyjayanthimala Bali, former Congress (I) MP, joins the BJP.
2/11/1933First edition of weekly ""Harijan"" edited by Mahatma Gandhi was published from Pune in English and Hindi.