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Historical Event on 3/26/1918
Vanavihari B.N. Sundara Rao, great author and journalist, was born at Varthur, Bangalore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1995 | Parvati Giri, also called the Little Mother Teresa, died in Orissa. She was 69. She was a social worker and had taken part during the Quit India movement. |
| 2/25/1884 | Ravishankar Maharaj, freedom fighter and national leader of the country, was born at Radhu village of Kaira District. |
| 5/7/1958 | Acharya Kripalani elected leader of a new opposition group in the Lok Sabha. |
| 6/7/1998 | India emerges World Bank's single largest borrower with cumulative loans of 44 billion dollars. |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
| 1/23/2000 | India will be taught a lesson if it tries to cross the LoC, says the Pakistani military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. |
| 12/6/1987 | MiG-29, re-christened `Baaz', inducted into the Indian Air Force. |
| 12/30/1906 | The All India Muslim League was founded in Dacca by a group of big landlords which included Aga Khan III, The Nawab of Dacca and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk-Salimullah. They supported the Partition of Bengal and called for seperate Muslim electrorates and other safeguard for Muslims. |
| 3/10/1904 | Raghunath Gopal Kokaje, great Hindi writer, was born at Bhoka, district Ratnagiri. |
| 10/2/1939 | Budhisagar Krishnappa Kunderan, cricketer (Indian keeper-batsman of 60's), was born in Mangalore. |
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