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Historical Event on 2/15/1998
Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati were ranked No. 2 when they won Dubai Open.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/18/1946 | U.K. Parliament approves British Cabinet mission report on India but Churchill says that the mission went too far in offering India independence outside of the Commonwealth. |
| 10/15/1990 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918), the South African black nationalist leader who arrived in India on a five-day visit. He is the first non-Asian to get this honour. |
| 1/21/1994 | India and Myanmar decide to open border trade. |
| 8/10/1992 | P. P. Thorat, retired Lt and General, died. |
| 3/30/1949 | Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), passed away. |
| 9/14/1933 | Gandhi declares one-year moratorium on civil disobedience in India. |
| 12/24/1988 | Jaynendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist, died. |
| 9/14/1820 | Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning. |
| 1/7/1987 | Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket. At 28, he was the youngest cricketer to accomplish this feat. |
| 4/29/1848 | Raja Ravi Verma, famous classic, prolific painter and great Indian Artist, was born in Kilimanoor, Kerala. |
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