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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 |
| 4/26/1999 | Saint Namdev passed away. |
| 11/23/1897 | Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, writer, was born. |
| 4/14/1950 | Sri Raman Maharshi, modern south Indian saint, passed away . |
| 5/28/1992 | Indo-US naval exercises begin. |
| 12/11/1976 | Aliyawar Jung, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
| 11/9/1942 | Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language, died. |
| 2/9/1951 | The first census of free India of enumeration work was started. |
| 2/20/1982 | The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone. |
| 8/30/1991 | Dr. P. J. Devras, friend of snakes, passed away. |
| 2/25/1897 | Dr. Amarnath Jha, educationist, was born. |
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