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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 |
| 11/24/1998 | Polling is held in 626 assembly constituencies spread over four States - Delhi, Madhya Prades, Mizoram and Rajasthan. |
| 12/22/1977 | Nalinibala Devi, Assamese poet, passed died. |
| 7/1/1989 | Yashvantrao Chavan Open University was established. |
| 9/18/2000 | President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee. |
| 11/22/1872 | Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England. |
| 1/14/1948 | First issue of Marathi daily newspaper 'Loksatta' was published. |
| 8/14/1862 | Bombay High Court was established for Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu territory. This court has benches at Nagpur, Panaji and Aurangabad. |
| 10/17/1994 | Seshan's controversial biography ''DMK'' obtains stay. |
| 2/2/1996 | Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair. |
| 3/5/1868 | Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar alias Save Dada, who filmed the felicitation function of Wrangler R. P. Paranjapye, was born. This film was titled as ""The Fresh Indian Regular of Cambridge University."" He was the First Short Documentary Film Maker of India. |
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