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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 |
| 10/23/1883 | Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, a pioneer in Indian Geology, was born at Surat in Gujarat. |
| 10/14/1919 | Raghu Karmkar, famous cinephotographer, was born. |
| 5/8/1815 | Malaun of Nepal was captured by General David Ochterlony. |
| 8/15/1985 | Accord reached on the Assam foreign nationals issue, agitation called off. |
| 9/1/1668 | Mumbai was handed over to East India Company by King of England. |
| 5/3/1945 | Hurricane-equipped squadrons played a major role in the Arakan offensive which began in December 1944, disrupting the enemy's lines of communication and constantly harrying the Japanese forces until victory was achieved with the re-occupation of Rangoon. |
| 11/29/1961 | First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India. |
| 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. |
| 5/3/1896 | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great nationalist, lawyer, freedom fighter, barrister and member of the Rajya Sabha, was born at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala. |
| 3/20/1994 | Pakistan closes down its consulate in Bombay. |
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