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Historical Event on 5/15/1999

Militants gun down Abdul Ahad Kar, a senior member of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly belonging to the ruling National Conference, in Kupwara district.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/17/1998Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.
1/24/1997Public holiday in connection with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose birth centenary.
8/17/1998The Government issues a notification banning the use of quinacrine, a controversial female contraceptive and sterilization agent.
3/30/1989Waman Ganpat Behre `Sobat', editor of weekly, passed away.
11/16/1962Chinese troops launch a major offensive in the frontier war.
8/27/1604Guru Granth Sahib was established in the Golden Temple of Amritsar.
10/17/1996President's rule reimposed in U.P.
8/18/1920Harbhajan Singh, educationist and writer, was born at Lumding.
1/23/1976Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation.
1/3/1919Shambhu Pan, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1960-70, was born at Bengal.