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Historical Event on 11/15/1998

Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
5/21/1996M.S. Sushama Dande (Shiv Sena) elected first woman mayor of New Mumbai along with Savitri Patil (Shiv Sena) as Deputy Mayor.
6/15/1899Roy Chowdhury Devipasad, modern Indian sculptor and painter, was born.
5/12/1993Lok Sabha okays extension of President's rule in the former BJP-ruled states.
9/30/1881Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, was born at Kanadukattam, Tamil Nadu.
8/3/1886Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi.
1/8/1956Tryambak Sitaram Karkhanis, founder of 'Maharashtra Drama Group' (Maharashtra Natak Mandali), died.
12/4/1898Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, Indian Scientist and Physicist-Philosopher, was born in Tamil Nadu.
12/14/1901Gandhiji reaches Rajkot via Porbunder.
9/28/1940Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as ""The Chhattisgarh Gandhi"".