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Historical Event on 4/26/1990
V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/10/1968 | Tukdoji Maharaj, modern social reformer, saint and poet, died in his ashram at Mozri in district Amravati. |
| 1/29/1948 | Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas. |
| 6/24/1991 | The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP. |
| 9/30/2000 | The Government appoints Dr. D.P.S. Seth as CMD of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. |
| 10/21/1997 | RBI de-regulates deposit rates, reduces CRR and Bank Rate (from 10\% to 9) and allows banks to have two sets of Prime Lending Rates. |
| 10/15/1915 | Dr. I. Gopalkrishnan, Cricket Test Umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/15/1918 | K.C.D. Brahaspati, great poet, playwright and orientalist, was born at Rampur, UP. |
| 2/4/1944 | Japanese attack Indian Seventh Army at Burma |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 7/13/1999 | Militants attack the residential complex of Border Security Force (BSF) in Madar village near Bandipur and take 12 persons as hostages after killing four. |
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