Today in Indian History
Events for May 15
| 15-May-1729 | Khanderao Dabhade, great warrior in Maratha kingdom, passed away. |
| 15-May-1817 | Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali social reformer and father of Rabindranath Tagore, was born. |
| 15-May-1864 | Mahavirprasad Dvivedi, famous Hindi litterateur, poet, writer and editor, was born at Daulatpur village in UP. |
| 15-May-1873 | The proposal to dissolve East India Company was passed in England. |
| 15-May-1878 | Sivnath Shastri and Ananda Mohan Bose, under the leadership of the younger group of Brahmo Sama, rebelled and started Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. |
| 15-May-1949 | Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan. |
| 15-May-1958 | Aruna Asaf Ali became the Mayor of Delhi. |
| 15-May-1958 | Gift Tax Act was introduced. |
| 15-May-1989 | NAL's 0.6 m transonic wind tunnel is commissioned. Total project cost is about Rs 20 million. |
| 15-May-1992 | BSE closed. |
| 15-May-1992 | CBI begins probe into the security scam. |
| 15-May-1992 | Harshad Mehta suspended. |
| 15-May-1993 | K.M. Cariappa, field marshal and Major General, passed away at the age of 93. |
| 15-May-1995 | PM Rao reaches New York for a week-long visit. |
| 15-May-1996 | The 11th Lok Sabha constituted as Election Commission submits a list of 534 successful candidates to President. |
| 15-May-1997 | Yaseen Malik, All-Party Hurriyat Conference leader, was released from Tihar jail. |
| 15-May-1998 | The Indian Army at Chandilora (Tangmey) captured 15 kg charas, 400 gm dust of charas and 12 kg leaves of charas |
| 15-May-1998 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro, receives the 1998 Polar music award. |
| 15-May-1999 | Militants gun down Abdul Ahad Kar, a senior member of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly belonging to the ruling National Conference, in Kupwara district. |
| 15-May-1999 | The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance. |
| 15-May-2000 | Ghulam Hassan Bhat, Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Power, dies in a powerful IED explosion near Mandipore in Anantnag. |
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