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Historical Event on 5/26/1997

Government decides to allow the use of environment-friendly LPG as a motor vehicle fuel.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/16/2000In an important pronouncement, the Rajasthan High Court declares Jains as a religious minority community and allows teaching institutions set up by them to enjoy minority status under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution.
3/7/1987Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first batsman to score 10,000 test runs in cricket a match against Pakistan at Ahmedabad.
8/16/1946Hindus and Muslims riot in Calcutta. 90 people lost their lives and other 900 were hurt. The Muslim League observed a ""Direct Action Day"" and announced its withdrawal of support from all plans.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.
5/20/1994Indian ship rescues over 2000 Indian nationals trapped in the embattled Yemen's port city of Aden.
10/27/1999Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Madhya Pradesh splits.
1/2/1990Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
11/15/192116 Gurkha troops killed by anti-British rebels.
6/23/1920Kesri Jagannathrao Joshi, senior leader of Janata Party in Karnataka, was born.