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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
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.
8/15/1772Divani and Faujdary courts seperated by East India Company.
5/7/1958Acharya Kripalani elected leader of a new opposition group in the Lok Sabha.
10/28/1964Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, famous Gandhian leader, passed away.
11/12/1781Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops.
9/21/1948Formation of Press Trust of India (PTI) announced under an agreement signed between Reuters and Indian and Eastern Newspapers Society.
5/23/1993Channa Reddy,Rajasthan Governor, shifted to Tamil Nadu. Motilal Vohra appointed in UP and B. Satyanarayan Reddy moved to Orissa.
8/15/1955Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa.
1/29/1975West Indies won the fifth test against India after winning the exciting cricket series 3-2.
2/20/1985Bhawani Prasad Mishra, progressive Hindi poet, passed away. His most famous poem is ""Main Geet Bechtaa Hun"".