|
|
Historical Event on 2/26/1857
First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1900 | Sathya Sai Baba was born |
| 5/20/1972 | Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta. |
| 12/31/1998 | Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He is the 18th Air Chief Marshal. |
| 10/12/1993 | RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy. |
| 9/25/1984 | Indian Army withdraws from the Golden Temple; repair of Akal Takht complete. |
| 3/2/1997 | Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit. |
| 1/18/1999 | Gul Panag (20) from Delhi was crowned Femina Miss India Universe at the Miss India 1999 beauty pageant in Pune. |
| 1/15/1887 | Shri Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary, freedom fighter and a great native poet, was born in village Angaluru, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 10/15/1915 | Dr. I. Gopalkrishnan, Cricket Test Umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 6/26/1983 | Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
