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Historical Event on 4/26/1999

India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/6/1992The Centre decides to wind up the 7-year-old Food Processing Industry ministry.
4/10/1760Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75.
11/9/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him.
12/25/1932King George V's chair collapsed during his Christmas dinner speech.
5/28/1968Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name.
5/20/1994Indian ship rescues over 2000 Indian nationals trapped in the embattled Yemen's port city of Aden.
11/16/2000The Government to reduce equity holding in nationalised banks from 51 per cent to 33 per cent.
12/31/1993Manipur placed under President's rule; Bangarappa launches Karnataka Congress Party.
5/19/1979Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away.
10/15/1992Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab.