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Historical Event on 12/26/1999

Shankar Dayal Sharma (81), former President of India, died in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/2/1980Ramshankar Baij, great sculptor, died.
9/5/1918Ratanji Jamshetji Tata, famous Indian industrialist and social reformer, died.
2/2/1930Vasudev Govind Apte, editor and dictrionay creator, passed away.
2/2/1930Mughal army defeated Rana Pratapsingh in the battle of Haldighat.
2/19/1949Mass arrests of communists in India.
10/2/1994Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary.
4/21/1938Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet, passed away.
10/27/1969Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab.
3/17/1943Indian troops retreat from Rathedaung to Buthidaung in the face of a renewed Japanese offensive on the Arakan front in Burma.
3/24/1946British Cabinet Mission came to India presided by Lord Pethick Lawrence.