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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
9/1/1988Fatte Singrao Gaekwad of Baroda, former Member of Parliament, passed away.
11/23/1991Bhaskaracharya Research Institute established at Dhule.
1/31/1992LTTE Supremo, V. Prabhakaran, declared offender in Rajiv Gandhi murder case and ordered to surrender by a Madras court.
2/10/1990Saroj Mukherjee, WB's CPI(M) secretary, died.
6/19/1990NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan.
4/26/1908Judge Sarv Mittra Sikri, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
3/1/1971Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc.
7/3/1991Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996.
11/10/1922S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka.
10/14/1953Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Family Planning and Sex Education preacher, died.