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Historical Event on 5/26/1997

Government decides to allow the use of environment-friendly LPG as a motor vehicle fuel.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/14/199315 bus passengers massacred in J&K.
9/11/1895Vinoba Bhave (real name Vinayak Narhari Bhave), great Gandhian Acharya, was born at Ganoda village of Maharashtra.
1/10/1896Gangadhar Kelkar, founder of famous Raja Kelkar Museum at Pune Dinkar, was born.
4/23/1928Narasimha Murtey, educationist, was born at Nandur, A.P.
11/22/1913Lakshmikant Jha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state and international famed ecomonist, was born.
5/12/1949S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US.
5/10/1936Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, great freedom fighter, politician, journalist and muslim leader, passed away.
6/30/1984W. R. Dhavle, editor, died.
8/3/1939Apoorva Kumar Sengupta, cricketer (1959 Test - India vs WI, without distinction), was born in Lucknow.
1/4/1998V.D.I.S. nets Rs.10,500 crores with Rs 33,000 crore black money disclosed in 4,66,031 declarations made.