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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 |
| 7/31/1974 | B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 15-08-1974. |
| 6/25/1900 | Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England. |
| 8/13/1963 | Sisir Kumar Mitra, Physics scientist, died at the age of 73. |
| 9/9/1872 | Sarladevi Chaudharani, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 5/12/1999 | Arunachal Pradesh Governor refuses to quit. |
| 2/27/1803 | Great fire in Bombay. |
| 1/20/1684 | Treaty between Marathas and Portuguese. |
| 9/1/1930 | Suhasini Ganguly, freedom fighter, was arrested and send to Hijali Jail for her revolutionery activities. She later lived a low profiled life after release from prision. |
| 11/15/1621 | Jahangir captured Kakda Fort. |
| 5/9/1866 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale, freedom fighter and political leader, was born in Kotluk village of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. |
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