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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
11/18/1999Sonia Gandhi pleads the President on Nalini's case.
8/17/199220 members of the Janata Dal led by Ajit Singh break away from the parent body seeking separate seats in the Lok Sabha.
8/15/1982Doordarshan's national programme and the first nationwide colour transmission started by Delhi Doordarshan.
8/3/1995Enron Power Project scrapped by Maharashtra government.
1/31/1961Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha, first Chief Minister of Bihar, passed away.
8/13/1947Riots sweep Lahore in Punjab; mobs stone Gandhi's house.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
9/4/1947Gandhiji breaks fast.
6/7/1955Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, visited U.S.S.R.
3/4/1991Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha presents mid-term budget, cut in food and fertiliser subsidy, amounting to Rs. 934 crore, proposed.