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Historical Event on 1/26/2001

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Lata Mangeshkar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1964Ravishankar University was established at Raipur in Madhya Pradesh.
6/25/1999PSCB emerged men's and women's champions in the inter-institutional table tennis in Gandhidham.
6/25/1999Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Count of Vidigueira, met the Jamerin of Calicut after arriving in India three days ago at Malabar Coast. He was joined by an experienced Gujarati pilot at Malindi. He was the 6th Governor and 2nd Viceroy of India.
8/1/1955Arun Lal, cricketer (Indian batsman in sixteen Tests 1982-89), was born in Moradabad, U.P.
4/19/1996AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
5/4/1799Tipu Sultan is killed in a battle against 5,000 British soldiers who stormed and razed his capital, Seringapatanam.
6/19/1871Madhavrao Sapre was born.
6/5/1961Ramesh Krishnan, Indian tennis star, was born. He was also the winner of Junior Wimbledon 1979.
8/20/1995India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control.
2/13/1999The 5th National Games were inaugurated by President K.R. Narayanan in Imphal.