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Historical Event on 9/26/1999

Six selected for Shanti Swaroop award for Science.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/30/1992Satyajit Ray received the honorary Oscar award..
5/28/1895Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter, author and painter, was born.
11/10/1992Attorney General G. Ramaswamy, under cloud for his dealings with Standard Chartered Bank, resigns.
3/18/1992Shreyanprasad Jain, famous philanthropist and industrialist, passed away.
11/5/1907Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions.
6/14/1947Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.
9/29/1959Arati Saha successfully swam the English Channel. She was the first Asian lady to achieve the feat.
1/15/1965Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras.
5/31/1973Mohan Kumaramangalam, Central Minister, died in an air crash near Delhi.
1/15/1934Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed.