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Historical Event on 6/26/1991
Sharad Pawar joins Union Cabinet as Defence Minister.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/18/1953 | Backward Classes Commission inaugurated. |
8/8/1972 | Olympics open at Munich (26). |
10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics. |
8/29/1975 | Adinath Lahiri, leading geologist, passed away. |
2/28/1963 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, passed away at Sadaqat Ashram, Patna. |
7/21/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission. |
12/1/1999 | Supreme Court quashes a pending inquiry initiated by the Election Commission against former Union Finance Minister Manmohan Singh. |
12/1/1999 | While returning to his country, Timur Lung looted and destroyed Delhi and parts of North India including Hardwar, the Ganga pilgrimage town, and crossed Sindhu River. |
12/20/1999 | The Government rejects underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's conditional offer to surrender. |
5/18/1945 | Bhagwat Subramaniam Chandrasekhar, cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79), was born in Banglore. He received Arjun Award and Padmashree awards in 1972. |
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