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Historical Event on 2/26/1996

Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
8/16/1923Narayan Athavle, famous Marathi litterateur and journalist, was born.
10/17/1999Chiranjeev Milkha Singh won the Lexus International Golf tournament in Bangkok.
3/24/1998200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district.
5/20/1940Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.
9/4/1946Interim Government formed.
3/17/1997A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.
2/10/1916Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged.
2/17/1918S. V. Kumaraswamy, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1961-62, was born at Tamil Nadu.
8/21/1972A law was passed for protecting wild animals, including lions and tigers, from extinction.