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Historical Event on 5/15/1949
Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/15/2000 | K.R. Narayanan, President, presents Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 1998 to B.R. Chopra for his contribution to Indian cinema. |
| 3/9/1998 | Vishwanathan Anand,Chess legend, wins the Super Grand Master Title. |
| 2/26/1901 | The notes of Rs twenty denomination were issued with two issuing circles. These notes had four numeric denominations. |
| 11/1/1961 | First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748. |
| 5/21/1835 | Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 9/5/1909 | Phiroze Edulji Palia, left-hand batsman and slow spin bowler, was born in Mumbai. He played in India's first Test at Lord's in 1932. |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
| 2/25/1920 | Balraj Madhok was born. |
| 8/20/1988 | Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed. |
| 11/19/2000 | The Government announces a partial rollback in the price of kerosene by Re. 1 a litre and LPG by Rs. 10 a cylinder in deference to the demands by allies led by the Trinamool Congress. |
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