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Historical Event on 1/26/1996

47th Republic Day celebrated;Chief Guest was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/25/1975President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day.
1/21/1980Assembly elections in Kerala; LDF wins absolute majority. E.K. Nayanar forms government in Kerala.
4/13/1982Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal passed away.
6/2/1990Sri Ram Sharma Acharya passed away. (27-6-91).
3/23/2000Udham Singh (72), hockey legend, died at his home town in Sansarpur (near Jalandhar).
5/31/1928Pankaj Khirod Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad), was born in Calcutta. He was the recipient of Padmashree (1975).
10/20/1969Punjabrao Agriculture University established.
1/18/1977Morarji Desai and other opposition leaders were released from jail and Lok Sabha was dissolved by the president during the emergency period.
10/6/1999Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes.
11/11/1998India objects to Washington's discrimination in easing sanctions against New Delhi and Islamabad, clamped in the wake of the nuclear tests by the two countries.