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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
1/21/1999Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, suspends his party's protest against the coming India-Pakistan cricket matches after an urgent meeting with the Union Home Minister in Mumbai.
10/30/1933Dara Nadirsha Dotiwala, cricket Test umpire for 6 tests from 1981-88, was born in Mumbai.
11/27/2000After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.
11/14/1959Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone.
4/3/1984Bombay beat Delhi on first innings to win the Ranji Trophy.
12/11/1998Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) died at 1850 hrs today.
5/22/1936Lord Brabourne laid the foundation stone of Brabourne Stadium in Bombay.
12/20/1999Win Chadha ready to come to India to face trial in the Bofors case.
8/4/1967World's longest and highest Dam 'Nagarjun Sagar' made by Masonary System was inaugrated.
12/12/1964HJT-16, the first Indian jet trainer, made its inaugural flight.