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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 |
| 3/1/2000 | Gopichand wins the Indian Oil Servo National badminton championship at Kochi-making it four in a row. |
| 12/23/1977 | Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born. |
| 7/12/1970 | Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives. |
| 2/23/1980 | Prakash Padukone becomes the first Indian to win All-England Badminton Championship. |
| 4/1/1962 | Maharashtra State Finance Corporation started its operations. |
| 8/2/1885 | Poet Siyaram Saran Gupt, brother of national poet Maithilysharan Gupt, was born. |
| 10/28/2000 | The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985. |
| 4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
| 4/14/1950 | Sri Raman Maharshi, modern south Indian saint, passed away . |
| 1/26/1876 | Railway route started between Mumbai and Calcutta. |
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