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Historical Event on 11/15/1999

Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/24/1990Defence scientists successfully test fired country's first third generation anti-tank missile 'NAG'.
9/2/1946Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.
10/29/1992Komar Singh, the first Indian Ambassador to Israel, presented credentials to President Chain Herzog in Jerusalem.
4/13/1993Lalitadevi Shastri passed away.
7/15/1986Sandhya Agarwal made 190 runs in third Womens Test Cricket setting a new record in England.
12/11/1971The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.
11/8/1948Nathuram Godse confesses to murder of Gandhi but denies conspiracy.
1/28/1984Dozen's of Sikh Militants arrested in India's troubled Punjab State after terrorists killed 3 people and injured 31 in grenade attack.
9/29/1997IRS-1D, fourth Indian Remote Sensing satellite, successfully launched off by PSLV-CI, the country's first operational polar satellite launch vehicle, from Sriharikota. With this launch, India became a member of the exclusive club of nations capable of launching the heavier class of satellites.
9/20/1993Narsimha Rao, Prime Minister, arrives in Teheran on a three-day visit.