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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
5/22/1953Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World).
6/26/1995Madhya Pradesh declared ""Tiger State"" as it homes one sixth of the world's tiger population.
11/7/1950King Tribhubana Bir Bikram of Nepal flees palace for refuge in Indian Embassy at Kathmandu.
3/22/2000INSAT-3B launched.
10/24/1995Total solar eclipse seen over Rajasthan, UP, Bihar and West Bengal, while partial eclipse seen in the rest of the country.
7/1/1947British Parliament passes the India Independence Act and fixes August 15 for the transfer of power.
3/7/1956A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India.
11/13/1998Tendulkar blazes as India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah beating Zimbabwe in the final.
11/12/1996Over 350 people die in mid-air collision in Bhiwani district, Haryana.
7/22/1944Man Mohan Modi Seth , great industrialist, was born at Modinagar, U.P.