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Historical Event on 2/15/1998

Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati were ranked No. 2 when they won Dubai Open.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/19/1992Shridhar Narayan Bendre, famous painter, passed away.
2/28/1930Strike by workers of the Nizam state railways over bonus.
11/18/1978Dhirendra Ganguly, film maker, writer, director and actor, passed away.
9/5/1904Bhalchandra Pandharinath Bahirat, editor and expert of Saint literature, was born.
6/1/1959N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party.
6/21/1997Sethi claims sixth National billiards crown in Bangalore.
1/19/1987Narain Dutt Ojha made some sort of a record at the residence of the Chief Justice of India when he was sworn in as a Judge of Supreme Court at 10.00 p.m.
5/18/1974First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.
8/22/1933Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.
3/17/1995Congress-I in Arunachal Pradesh wins two-third majority.