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Historical Event on 5/15/1992

BSE closed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/6/1997U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal.
10/6/1999INLD-BJP combine wins by big margin in Haryana.
11/20/1999World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy.
9/14/1953Andhra Pradesh was established. Hyderabad became the capital instead of Karnul.
1/22/1901Queen Victoria (1819-1901) passed away at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, South England, after a brief illness. She had been throned for almost 64 years, which is the longest reign in British history. She had given her name to an age ""Victorian Britain"".
2/26/1996Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM.
7/14/1997Eleventh Presidential election with K.R.Narayanan and T.N. Seshan as candidates; 732 out of 775 MPs and 3893 out of 4058 MLAs cast their ballots.
1/22/1683Shri Samarth Ramdas passed away.
7/8/1907Elphinstone Picture Palace was started by Jamshedji F. Madan at Calcutta.
1/1/1995Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi.