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Historical Event on 8/26/1997
Commander of Uri sector Brigadier Jasbir Singh Lidder and another senior army officer have a narrow escape as Pakistani troops fire on their cavalcade at Chakori near LOC in J&K.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/28/1924 | Many deaths were reported and several villages were destroyed due to floods in the south. |
| 1/4/1924 | Vidyadhar Gokhle, editor, playwright and politician, was born. |
| 2/23/1980 | Prakash Padukone becomes the first Indian to win All-England Badminton Championship. |
| 7/14/1963 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, passed away. |
| 8/13/1995 | Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar. |
| 8/11/1954 | Madireddy Venkateshwar Narasimha Rao, cricketer (Indian leg-spin all-rounder 1978-79), was born in Secunderabad. |
| 8/11/1954 | Akbar, great Mughal Emperor, won Kabul. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 10/31/1991 | Karsevaks' hoist flags on Masjid in Ayodhya. |
| 12/24/2000 | The Government re-instates Dr. R.S.Paroda as the Director-General of the ICAR. |
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