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Historical Event on 5/15/2000

Ghulam Hassan Bhat, Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Power, dies in a powerful IED explosion near Mandipore in Anantnag.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/27/199511 Cong-I and National Conference activists were gunned down in J&K after they were abducted from their homes.
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
7/1/1964Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) was established.
9/5/1904Bhalchandra Pandharinath Bahirat, editor and expert of Saint literature, was born.
7/31/1985Lalit Maken, Congress (I) M.P, his wife and a visitor at their residence in Delhi were shot down by terrorists.
1/30/1959Uranium Metal Project started producing Uranium at Trombay, Mumbai.
11/29/1991Industrial and bank strike called by the left-oriented trade unions to oppose the new industrial and economic policies.
10/26/1928R.S.Das, a law member of the Viceroy's council, died in Calcutta.
12/15/1997Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University.
10/5/1864Cyclone destroyed most of Calcutta city in which approximately 50,000 people died.