|
|
Historical Event on 5/26/1998
Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/19/1949 | Raja of Tehri Garhwal announces merger with Indian Union. |
| 3/19/1936 | Raghav Kaneria, great artist and decorator, was born. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 11/13/1998 | Pravabati Devi (88), freedom fighter and `Mother Teresa of Orissa', dies at the orphanage set up by her at Chharchanpali. |
| 9/29/1755 | Robert Lord Clive founded the British empire in India |
| 8/1/1970 | Bhopal University was established. |
| 9/1/1798 | England signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India. |
| 1/19/1960 | Ramchandra Gopal (Dadasaheb Torne), famous film director, passed away. |
| 8/10/1988 | Ramakrishna Hegde resigns as CM of Karnataka on moral grounds in connection with phone tapping issue. |
| 9/28/1984 | First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
