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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 |
| 9/20/1997 | President K. R. Narayanan inaugurates the first Dr. Ambedkar Law University in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. |
| 5/28/1978 | The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay. |
| 1/3/1912 | Shantiprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 12/14/1998 | The Supreme Court allows Karnataka to begin skeletal work on erection of 26 crest gates at the Almatti dam on the Krishna at ''its own risk and cost'', but directs it not to raise the dam height beyond the present 509 metres. |
| 1/26/2000 | Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 5/26/1948 | First ever trade agreement with Pakistan. |
| 1/14/1994 | C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away. |
| 12/16/1990 | Dr. M. Channa Reddy resigned as Andhra Pradesh CM. |
| 8/12/1602 | Abul Fazal, Akbar's minister, was killed on the instructions of Jahangir. |
| 1/8/1995 | ONGC's oil rig blow out at Pasalapudi site in Andhra Pradesh. |
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