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Historical Event on 5/15/1999

The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/6/1867Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter, was born at Sialkot.
4/8/1997Delhi High Court quashes charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy against L.K. Advani (BJP President), and former Union Minister V.C. Shukla in the Jain hawala case.
9/27/2000Venus Williams of USA claims the women's gold in the tennis event in the Sydney Olympics.
4/19/1998Kottayam in Kerala becomes the first district in India to complete computerisation of the talluk offices connecting them with the district headquarters.
5/28/1978The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay.
10/31/1997Balmiki Prasad Singh takes over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds K. Padmanabhaiah.
7/29/1748Boscawen landed 25 km south of Pondicherry.
2/14/1970Supreme Court holds nationalization of banks illegal. Presidential ordinance revalidates nationalization.
10/12/1995Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI.
11/9/1960Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died.