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Historical Event on 8/26/1997

Commander of Uri sector Brigadier Jasbir Singh Lidder and another senior army officer have a narrow escape as Pakistani troops fire on their cavalcade at Chakori near LOC in J&K.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/15/2000The Maharashtra Government gives the green signal to police to proceed against Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray for his alleged role in the 1992-93 Mumbai communal riots.
7/28/1921The All-India Congress Party votes to boycott a forthcoming visit by the Prince of Wales and urges a boycott of imported cloth.
6/1/1998The Prasar Bharati Bill is introduced in the Lok Sabha to revive the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990.
7/2/1970Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, passed away.
4/22/1993Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike.
10/2/1993Prime Minister's employment project started in urban areas.
6/11/2000Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.
7/7/196294 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay.
5/27/1948The trial of nine men accused of assassination of Gandhi before a special court judge at the Red Fort. The trial ended on 30th Dec.
1/27/1926Arunkumar Vaidya, former General of Indian Army, was born.