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Historical Event on 1/26/2000

Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/26/1999Six selected for Shanti Swaroop award for Science.
6/26/1992The Tin Bigha corridor leased to Bangladesh as per the Indo-Bangladesh agreement.
7/11/1897Sibnath Banerjee, great social worker, freedom fighter and leader, was born in village Brahman Rangdia, Khulna district.
8/13/1911Guha Phulrenu, social worker, was born.
7/13/1950Nehru asks Stalin and Acheson to restore peace in Korea.
8/16/1991C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away.
6/16/1990GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops.
5/9/1996J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns.
10/22/1947There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government.
10/17/1999Indian men bagged bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang.