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Historical Event on 8/26/1996

Supreme Court asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to the Income Tax department.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/30/1991Uma Shankar Dixit (90) passed away.
1/2/1991Thiruvananthapuram airport declared India's fifth International Airport.
11/11/1888Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, freedom fighter, was born in Mecca. He was an outspoken champion of rationalism and progressiveness in all spheres of Indian life.
11/12/1762Peshwa surrendered in Battle of Alegaon.
12/16/1990Dr. M. Channa Reddy resigned as Andhra Pradesh CM.
7/19/1938Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, great Indian space scientist and mathematician, was born at Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
2/16/1931Viceroy Lord Irwin meets Mahatma Gandhi for the first time.
4/8/1950Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact.
10/9/1999Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
2/19/1919Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born.