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Historical Event on 5/26/1999
IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/18/1896 | Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur. |
| 3/2/1984 | Mother Teresa University inaugurated by Mother herself at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu. |
| 12/6/1857 | Raja Nahar Singh arrested by the Showers to kept him first in Motia Mahal and then at Metcalfe House, Delhi. |
| 5/9/1753 | Maharaja Surajmal attack on Delhi. |
| 1/11/1958 | Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps. |
| 5/31/1947 | Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection. |
| 10/17/1995 | BJP withdraws support to Mayavati Government in Uttar Pradesh. UP Governor Motilal Vohra accepts the resignation of Mayawati and her cabinet but asks her to continue as caretaker government. BJP's top brass takes the final decision to break with the BSP. |
| 8/12/1602 | Abul Fazal, Akbar's minister, was killed on the instructions of Jahangir. |
| 12/8/1930 | British Gen. Norman Simpson shot at desk by Indian nationalists. |
| 3/24/1896 | Thiripad V. T. Bhatt, author and journalist, was born. |
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