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Historical Event on 4/26/1999
India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/30/1953 | The Untouchability (Offences) Bill published in the Gazette of India. |
| 1/4/1964 | The First Diesel Engine came out of the Varanasi Diesel Engine Carshed. |
| 2/15/1945 | Indian troops capture Pagan at Burma. |
| 8/1/1988 | Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991. |
| 6/6/1916 | Lord Kitchener, the premier soldier of the British Empire, passed away tragically last night as the ''Hampshire'', the cruiser on which he was traveling to Russia to boost sagging morale, struck a mine or was torpedoed off the Orkney Islands and sank, drowning all aboard. Life in London came to a standstill, while Paris and Washington were shocked by the news. In the last half-century, through tireless energy and devotion to imperial duty, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 66, commanded in Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, and India. Two years ago, he had become the War Secretary. |
| 7/6/1993 | 39 people were killed and three officials abducted in J&K . |
| 3/30/1919 | Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act. |
| 2/15/1997 | Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi. |
| 2/15/1997 | Nizam Shah became the Sultan of Dehli. |
| 5/29/1965 | Indian Everest team sets a world record by climbing the Everest for the fourth time. |
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